Strength Quotes

He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

~ David McCullough Quotes from 1776
Self-Development Quotes on: Worry, Health, Work, Strength

Seeing things as they were, not as he would wish they were, was known to be one of Washington’s salient strengths.

~ David McCullough Quotes from 1776
Motivational Quotes on: Strength

[to his troops before entering battle:] Strength and Honor. Strength and Honor. Strength and Honor. Three weeks from now I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be and it will be so. Hold the line, stay with me. If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled! For you are in Elysium. You are already dead! [soldier laugh] Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity.

~ Maximus Quotes from Gladiator
Inspirational Quotes on: Laugh, Life, Strength, Honor

Responsibility of any kind can seem intimidating and for this reason man may often be afraid of truly deep relationships with other human beings. A relationship suggests to him the most extreme of responsibilities. It implies a burden, a restriction of freedom, seldom the converse. A student in love class, for instance, commented, “I’ve always been afraid of deep relationship because of the responsibility it seemed to impose. I was afraid of the demands it would make of me and I worried I wouldn’t be able to meet those demands. I was amazed to find that when I did get the courage to form a relationship, I actually became stronger. I acquired two minds instead of one, four hands, four arms, four legs, and another’s world. In joining forces with someone, I got twice the strength to grow, with twice as many alternatives. Now it’s easier for me to love others. I am stronger and I am less afraid.” He had discovered an important insight.

~ Leo Buscaglia Quotes from Love
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Development Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Self-reliance, Fate, Strength

You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.

~ Neale Donald Walsch Quotes from Conversations with God
Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Love, God, Teach, Wisdom, Patience, Truth, Forgiveness, Good, Great, Life, Passion, Light, Understand, Teacher, Give, Joy, Strength, Peace, Compassion, Forgive

Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment—not discouragement—you will find the strength there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures, followed by wreckage, were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion
Inspirational Quotes on: The Moment, Courage, Love, Character, Failure, Flow, Act, Follow, Joseph Campbell, Great, Life, Nature, Challenge, Fate, Fail, Strength

…the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention…miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.

~ Marlo Morgan Quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under
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Rather than cripple, failure can strengthen. Depending on how we respond to them, blows can shatter us as if we were a cheap clay pot or temper us as they would steel.

~ Unknown Quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation
Self-Development Quotes on: Failure, Unknown, Mistake, Fail, Strength

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's possible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

~ Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
Motivational Quotes on: Action, Risk, Acting, Act, Mistake, Suffer, Strength, Latin, Bold, Anger