Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Grillparzer

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

Franz Grillparzer

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Franz Grillparzer

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

Must I remind you that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link?

Jeb Bush

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

George S. Patton

You're never beaten until you admit it

George S. Patton

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

George Bernard Shaw

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Franz Kafka

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Harriet Tubman

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Harrison Ford

When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.

Harrison Ford

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

Indira Gandhi

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Irving Stone

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

Jack London

Strength is an empty shell.

One of the strengths of our team is our versatility,

Jacoby Jones

I say my greatest strength is my speed, and I think that I could use some work on my concentration.

Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use

Bob Hayes

That's the strength of our offense, no doubt.

Winchester is always strong at doubles. They don't really have any superstars, but they have strength up and down the lineup.

H. G. Wells

Strength is the outcome of need.

Jean Anouilh

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Jay-Z

Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.

Euripides

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Hal Borland

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Herman Melville

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.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Henry David Thoreau

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

Henry David Thoreau

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

Henry David Thoreau

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

Henry David Thoreau

We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.