Thequality of strength lined withtenderness is anunbeatable combination, as areintelligence andnecessity when unblunted by formaleducation. ~Maya AngelouBecause your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. ~Marcus AureliusThe hand of theaggressor is stayed by strength — and strength alone. ~Dwight D. EisenhowerWhat strength!! But don't forget there are many guys like you all over theworld. ~Street Fighter
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher, quoted inLife Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher (1858), ed. Edna Dean Proctor,p. 52
We require in our life both personal effort and Divine Guidance. Nothing can be achieved simply by personal effort, we also require Divine Mercy. But simply Divine Mercy is not enough, we require the strength and courage to receive it. Just as a bird cannot fly without both wings, so also a man cannot attain success in spiritual life without personal endeavour and Divinity.
Paramahansa Maharshi Nagendranath Bhaduri, Extracts from precepts of Maharshi Nagendranath, The Levitating Saint [ His Life & Advices] - Translated by Prof. Tripurasankar Sen Shastri , Nagendra Mission, 2B Rammohan Roy Road, Kolkata -700 009,W.B, India, p. 32
The Miller was a stout carl, for the nones, Ful big he was of braun, and eek of bones; * * * * * * * He was short-sholdred, brood, a thikke knarre, Ther nas no dore that he nolde heve of harre, Or breke it, at a renning, with his heed.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress (January 9, 1958).Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1958), p. 5
The hand of theaggressor is stayed by strength — and strength alone.
If there are soundreasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need forviolence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely onforce. Thususing force is not asign of strength but rather a sign ofweakness.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and declaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood.
Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui.
We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld,Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales (1655), no. 19 (1678). There are several English translations, including that above fromSelected Maxims and Reflections, trans. Edward M. Stack (1956), p. 26
So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,— The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.
John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Moral Warfare";Anti-Slavery Poems: Songs of Labor and Reform (1888)
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.
Wendell Willkie, speech accepting nomination as Republican candidate for U.S. President, at Elwood, Indiana (August 17, 1940),This Is Wendell Willkie (1940), pp. 273–74
And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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