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“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

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

“Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.”

Léon Bloy (1846–1917) French writer, poet and essayist

Auden, W.H.; Kronenberger, Louis (1966), The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press.

“The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness, of others' strength and greatness.”

Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!

Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness, of others' strength and greatness. He is proud of his great generals but not proud of himself. He admires thought which he did not have and not the thought he did have. He believes in things all the more thoroughly the less he comprehends them, and does not believe in the correctness of those ideas which he comprehends most easily.

“The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men.”

Norman Angell (1872–1967) British politician

Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
Context: The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men. Pacifists have sometimes evaded that truth as making too great a concession to Mars, as seeming to imply (which it does not in fact) that in order to abolish war, men must cease to be noble.
Base motives are, of course, among those which make up the forces that produce war. Base motives are among those which get great cathedrals built and hospitals constructed-contractors' profit-seeking, the vested interests of doctors and clergy. But Europe has not been covered by cathedrals because contractors wanted to make money, or priests wanted jobs.

“When I act, I give all the strength because I want everything to be good. Because of this, I am exhausted, but strength is felt by watching my role.”

Nedim Jahić (2001) Bosnian singer

“For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.”

William Mountford (1816–1885) English Unitarian preacher and author

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 616.

“Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I cannot take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.”

Patrik Baboumian (1979) German strength-athlete

“Strength | Vegan Strongman Patrik Baboumian,” video PSA for PETA (31 December 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWmZ3lE-uc.

“The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality”

Chuck Klosterman book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”

Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.

Patience et longueur de temps
Font plus que force ni que rage.
Book II (1668), fable 11.
Fables (1668–1679)

“Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Variant: Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
Source: The Lightning Thief

“You don't need right - if you have strength”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything”

Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA

“Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.”

Lisa Kleypas book Dreaming of You

Source: Dreaming of You

“Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: Lost December

“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

Section VIII: “Monopoly, or Opportunity?”, p. 117 http://books.google.com/books?id=rxC4IG60KTwC&pg=PA177&dq=%22man+who+is+swimming%22 <br class="br">1910s, The New Freedom (1913)

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

Betty Friedan (1921–2006) American activist

“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

The Two Paths, (1859).