Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
Strength is a matter of a made up mind.
A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
— Bible
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
The people rate strength before everything.
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of success.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
Cunning surpasses strength.
What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Physical strength in a woman -- that's what I am.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.