Quotes about strength

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

Epictetus

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Ovid

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. Roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

Max Lucado

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cesare Pavese

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

Tom Landry

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.

Swami Vivekananda

Strength and strength’s will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

Elbert Hubbard

Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last.

Florence Nightingale

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Stephen Covey

A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.

Laozi