Monday 1 May 2017

Strength Sayings and Quotes



A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.    

Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904)





A firm tree does not fear the storm.    

Dayak (Indonesian) (on strength and weakness)





A single arrow is easily broken; a bundle of ten is not.    

Japanese (on strength and weakness)





Control your emotions or they will control you.    

Chinese Proverb





Eagles don't catch flies.    

Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536)






He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.    

Jewish Proverb





If you ford a river in a crowd, the crocodiles won't get you. (Ed. note: If your lucky!)    

Malagasy (on strength and weakness)






It ain't over til it's over.    

Yogi Berra





It takes a village to raise a child.    

unknown





Little strokes fell great oaks.    

Ben Franklin (1706-1790)





Our handicaps exist only in our minds.    

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)





Persuasion is better than force.    

Aesop (c.620-560 BC)





Rocks need no protection from the rain. (Ed. Note: Except over time!)    

Malay (on strength and weakness)





Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.    

Hermann Hesse





No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.    

Buddha





The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost





We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt






Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.    

Mahatma Gandhi





That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche





The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi





We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

J.K. Rowling





In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus





Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Lilith Saintcrow





You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius





We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.

Joel Osteen





Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.

Susan Gale





Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

Unknown Author





Fall down seven times, get up eight.    

Japanese Proverb





The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross





Strong people don't put people down. They lift them up!

Unknown Author




You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.    

Elizabeth Gilbert





When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.    

Franklin D. Roosevelt





What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson





Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.

Helen Keller





We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson





Strength is a matter of a made up mind.

John Beecher





Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.    

Richard E. Byrd





He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

J.F. Clarke





Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Michael Jordan





You were given this life, because you are strong enough to live it.    

Robin Sharma





Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich






If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.    

Bruce Lee





If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

Flavia Weedn





Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

M. Kathleen Casey





An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.    

Brian Tracy





The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller





No matter what the situation, remind yourself 'I have a choice.'

Deepak Chopra





Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it    

Margaret Thatcher





Where there is no struggle, there is no strength

Oprah Winfrey





Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.    

T.S. Elliot

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