Union is strength. [ Motto ]
Instinct is animal strength. [ Daniel Webster ]
A feat of strength or skill. [ French ]
He stands by his own strength. [ Motto ]
Delicacy in woman is strength. [ Lichtenberg ]
Tears are the strength of women. [ Saint-Evremond ]
Candour gives wings to strength. [ Motto ]
Integrity gains strength by use. [ Tillotson ]
Skill is stronger than strength. [ Proverb ]
As the man is, so is his strength. [ Bible ]
Union gives strength to the humble. [ Syrus ]
All your strength is in your union,
All your danger is in discord. [ Longfellow ]
Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
Nothing so gentle as real strength. [ St. Francis de Sales ]
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. [ Lavater ]
Water its living strength first shows.
When obstacles its course oppose. [ Goethe ]
As thy days, so shall thy strength be. [ Bible ]
Strength of body is none of the virtues. [ Proverb ]
The people rate strength before everything. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Who hath not heard the rich complain
Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?
He barred from every use of wealth.
Envies the ploughman's strength and health. [ Gay ]
People do not lack strength; they lack will. [ Victor Hugo ]
Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim.
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes.
Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,
That die unmarried ere they can behold
Bright Phoebus in his strength - a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
The crown-imperial; lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one! [ William Shakespeare ]
All below is strength, and all above is grace. [ Dryden ]
Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world;
The health, the soul, the beauty most divine;
A mask of gold hides all deformities;
Gold is heaven's physic, life's restorative. [ Decker ]
The charm of eloquence - the skill
To wake each secret string,
And from the bosom's chords at will
Life's mournful music bring;
The overmastering strength of mind, which sways
The haughty and the free,
Whose might earth's mightiest ones obey
This charm was given to thee. [ Mrs. Embury ]
With affection's warm, intense, refined;
She mixed such calm and holy strength of mind.
That, like heaven's image in the smiling brook,
Celestial peace was pictured in her look. [ Campbell ]
Oh, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]
It is skill, not strength, that governs a ship. [ Proverb ]
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Our knowledge is our power, and God our strength. [ Southey ]
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek. [ Cowper ]
A fire, if neglected, always gathers in strength. [ Horace ]
There is a strength
Deep-bedded in our hearts, of which we reck
But little, till the shafts of heaven have pierced
Its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent
Before her gems are found? [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Perseverance performs greater works than strength. [ Proverb ]
With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure. [ Mrs. Osgood ]
Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength. [ Milton ]
Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape. [ James HowelL ]
Patience and time do more than strength or passion. [ La Fontaine ]
He teaches best.
Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
And knows their strength or weakness through his own. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Mightier far
Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
Of magic potent over sun and star,
Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. [ Wordsworth ]
He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]
By strength of heart the sailor fights with roaring seas. [ Wordsworth ]
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength. [ Hazlitt ]
We have not always enough reason to employ all our strength. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
A general should make weakness appear strength to his enemy. [ Fabius ]
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. [ Ruskin ]
The meekness of Moses is better than the strength of Sampson. [ Proverb ]
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. [ Proverbs ]
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. [ Johnson ]
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. [ Propertius ]
The strong mind is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength. [ Carlyle ]
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
We have not always sufficient strength to employ all our reason. [ Mme. de Grignan ]
He who has not the weakness of friendship, has not the strength. [ Joubert ]
To be great one must be positive, and gain strength through foes. [ Donn Piatt ]
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. [ Richter ]
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. [ Bible ]
Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent. [ Joubert ]
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength. [ Colton ]
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. [ Beecher ]
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. [ S. Smiles ]
Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability. [ Horace ]
America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages. [ Fisher Ames ]
Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor. [ Sterne ]
Women admire strength without affecting it; men delicacy without returning it. [ Jean Paul ]
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. [ Fenelon ]
Loss of strength is more frequently due to the faults of youth than of old age. [ Cicero ]
God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure. [ Hans Andersen ]
If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
It is not words that give strength to friendship, but a similarity of interests. [ Demosthenes ]
Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour. [ Johnson ]
Sure those who have neither strength nor weapons to fight at least should be civil. [ Goldsmith ]
That which had no force in the beginning can gain no strength from the lapse of time. [ Law Maxim ]
Strength with men is insensibility, greatness is pride, and calmness is indifference. [ George Sand ]
Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body. [ Levis ]
He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. [ Ward Beecher ]
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down - vast monument of strength. [ Milton ]
'Tis great - 'tis manly to disdain disguise. It shows our spirit, or it proves out strength. [ Young ]
Caracci's strength, Correggio's softer line, Paulo's free course, and Titian's warmth divine. [ Pope ]
Superior strength is found in the long-run to lie with those who had the right on their side. [ Froude ]
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. [ Carlyle ]
Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty. [ Plutarch ]
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit. [ Lady Blessington ]
There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess. [ Tuckerman ]
Nature fashions no creature without implanting in it the strength needful for its action and duration. [ Carlyle ]
As the heart is, so is love to the heart; it partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease. [ Longfellow ]
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [ Propertius ]
My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in strength and sureness the moment a second mind has adopted it. [ Novalis ]
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There needs not strength to he added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Have a purpose is life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you. [ Carlyle ]
In a sound sleep the soul goes home to recruit her strength, which could not else endure the wear and tear of life. [ Rahel ]
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity. [ Quarles ]
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs. [ Emerson ]
Truth is simple and gives little trouble, but falsehood gives occasion for the frittering away of time and strength. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Great is the strength of an individual soul true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to the redemption of a world. [ Mrs. Child ]
The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength. [ Charles Buxton ]
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage. [ Sterling ]
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. [ Emerson ]
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
That nation is in the enjoyment of liberty which stands by its own strength, and does not depend on the will of another. [ Livy ]
Truthfulness is not so much a branch as a blossom of moral, manly strength. The weak, whether they will or not, must lie. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speaks the truth. [ Hazlitt ]
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting. [ Joubert ]
Time is the greatest of all tyrants. As we go on towards age, he taxes our health, limbs, faculties, strength, and features. [ John Foster ]
Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, as the strength of spirit is proved by the bubbles on its surface. [ Mrs. Balfour ]
Duty speaks with the lawful authority of many voices; pleasure has no strength except in the longing desire of the hungry unit. [ Edith Simcox ]
A double task to paint the finest features of the mind, and to most subtle and mysterious things give color, strength, and motion. [ Akenside ]
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world. [ Goethe ]
Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. [ William Shakespeare ]
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who, when he was chill, was harmless, but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison. [ Johnson ]
The truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength. [ Carlyle ]
The more mysterious love is, the more strength it has; the more it is secret, the more it increases; the more hidden, the plainer shown. [ Mme. de Sartory ]
Husband and wife, - so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together! [ Ruffini ]
To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you. [ Cicero ]
It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well. [ Sydney Dobell ]
There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood. [ Aaron Hill ]
Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, - strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance. [ Ruskin ]
Brethren, life is passing; youth goes, strength decays. But duty performed, work done for God - this abides forever, this alone is imperishable. [ Richard Fuller ]
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy. [ Lowell ]
The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked; weaklings must lie. [ Richter ]
All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity. [ Rev. T. Binney ]
The royal navy of England has ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. [ Sir Wm. Blackstone ]
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot. [ Wm. Hazlitt ]
The true strength of every human soul is to be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern, and to be depended upon by as many inferior as it can reach. [ John Ruskin ]
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. [ Ward Beecher ]
He is a wise man who knoweth that his words should be suited to the occasion, his love to the worthiness of the object, and his anger according to his strength. [ Hitopadesa ]
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. [ Lavater ]
The blessings of fortune are the lowest: the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind. [ L'Estrange ]
When Fame stands by us all alone, she is an angel clad in light and strength; but when Love touches her she drops her sword, and fades away, ghostlike and ashamed. [ Ouida ]
No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be. [ Landor ]
There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found? [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind. [ Montaigne ]
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [ Bible ]
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length. Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. [ Jeremy Collier ]
A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by repeated strokes than a single blow. [ Melmoth ]
A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery. [ J. Locke ]
A thorough miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. [ W. B. Clulow ]
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength; there is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage. [ Hazlitt ]
What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere stimulus to men. [ Samuel Warren ]
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 ]
Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate. [ Bryant ]
Light is, in reality, more awful than darkness; modesty more majestic than strength; and there is truer sublimity in the sweet joy of a child, or the sweet virtue of a maiden, than in the strength of Antaeus or the thunder-clouds of Aetna. [ John Ruskin ]
One could not wish any man to fall into a fault; yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a crime even, that the morality which is in a man first unfolds itself, and what of strength he as a man possesses, now when all else is gone from him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the era of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtime of their hopes! [ C. Bingham ]
Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads and the strength that lifts men on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty, and makes a pleasure of duty. [ Bishop Doane ]
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions. [ Burke ]
The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth. [ Bayne ]
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe. [ Johnson ]
Just as a tested and rugged virtue of the moral hero is worth more than the lovely, tender, untried innocence of the child, so is the massive strength of a soul that has conquered truth for itself worth more than the soft peach-bloom faith of a soul that takes truth on trust. [ F. E. Abbot ]
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate, depend upon books. [ Richard Aungervyle ]
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble. The proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none. By itself, the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. [ Enchiridion ]
As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so, with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Remember always in painting, as in eloquence, the greater your strength the quieter will be your manner and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life, the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim. [ Ruskin ]
As the health and strength or weakness of our bodies is very much owing to their methods of treating us when we were young, so the soundness or folly of our minds is not less owing to those first tempers and ways of thinking which we eagerly received from the love, tenderness, authority, and constant conversation of our mothers. [ E. Law ]
Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant? [ Colton ]
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore. [ Melmoth ]
Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigour and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable in the commerce of life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. [ Burke ]
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor. [ Goethe ]
Take the title of nobility which thou hast received by birth, but endeavor to add to it another, that both may form a true nobility. There is between the nobility of thy father and thine own the same difference which exists between the nourishment of the evening and of the morrow. The food of yesterday will not serve three for today, and will not give thee strength for the next. [ Jamakchari ]
You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]