Famous Quotes About strength

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.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.