Quotes about Strength

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

Wickedness is weakness.

No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.

Do you really think... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment... there is no weakness in that.

The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership. The evidence of our strength lies not in the distance that separates us from other runners but in our closure with them, our slower pace for their sakes, our helping them pick it up and cross the line.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

Imagine: to be prepared to yield, to yield, to have nothing more to yield, to be broken, yet to be pressed to yield more!

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...