Quotes about Strength

We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.

yet I think Our Lord made use of it to show me that a soul in the state of grace has nothing to fear from the devil, who is a coward, and will even fly from the gaze of a little child.

Nothing whatsoever but the love of Jesus could have made me face these difficulties and others which followed, for I had to purchase my happiness by heavy trials.

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Ever since his first attack

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

You must do it alone.

Unless a man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

History which is not professedly utilitarian, history which is didactic only as great poetry is unconsciously didactic, may yet possess that highest form of usefulness, the power to thrill the souls of men with stories of strength and craft and daring, and to lift them out of their common selves to the heights of high endeavor.