“What has no shadow has no strength to live.”
“Some instances of strength of memory are very surprising.”
Coleman v. Wathen (1793), 5 T. R. 245.
“They know, in that changing room, that the strength is that changing room.”
30-Jun-2005, Radio Derby
Answers on a postcard please.
“God's help, the love of the people, the strength of Denmark.”
Margrethe II's royal motto, chosen upon her accession to the throne.
Queenship
“The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Tis slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.”
Michaelmas Term (1602), Act iv. Sc. 1. Compare: "It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize", Alexander Pope, The Iliad, book xxiii. line 383.
“You've given me strength to find home.”
"Two Worlds Collide"
Lyrics, Don't Forget (2008)
“There is no strength higher than overcoming carnal desire.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.75, p. 165
“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”
As quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71.
“The bodily strength, the fierceness and beauty of young women.”
"Complete Hero" (2009)
“The strength of faith is… no proof of the objective truth of faith.”
p, 125
New Fragments (1892)
“Setbacks there and at home will only increase our strength…”
About Japanese soldiers sent to Kiska. Quoted in "Out on the Causeway" - Time Magazine - May 24, 1943
“This has always been the strength of the United States”
Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), pp. 224–225
Context: In the United States, minority populations were never an indigestible mass—with the major exceptions of the one ethnic group that did not come here voluntarily (African Americans) and those who were here when Europeans arrived (American Indians). The rest all came, clustered and dispersed, and added new cultural layers to the general society. This has always been the strength of the United States. In much of Europe, for example, Muslims have retained religious and national identities distinct from the general population, and the general population has given them little encouragement to blend. The strength of their own culture has therefore been overwhelming.
“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Compensation
Context: Our strength grows out of our weakness. The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed. A great man is always willing to be little. Whilst he sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. The wound cicatrizes and falls off from him like a dead skin, and when they would triumph, lo! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies. In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
“The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 1.
Misattributed
“Such strength hath Custome in each tender Soul.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
“Always find the strength to dominate your thoughts.”
Original: Trova sempre la forza di dominare i tuoi pensieri.
Source: prevale.net
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
Variant: When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
