Strength Grows Quotes

#1. Our hearts must grow resolute, our courage more valiant, our spirits must be great, though our strength grows less.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. An evil brute grows strong and now is on the verge of crossing over from the island to the world you know. His name is Hubal, and his strength grows as your world's lightness folds.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#3. Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.

Eric Flint

#4. Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

A. N. Wilson

#5. Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

Alexander Pope

#7. It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.

Jon McGregor

#8. Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

Raoul Vaneigem

#9. I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.

Charles M. Blow

#10. That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

Paulo Coelho

#11. War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

William Ellery Channing

#12. Our family is a circle of strength and love ... Our family with ever birth and every union the circle grows, our family is a circle of strength every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.

Harriet Morgan

#13. Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in 'Excalibur.' That was the first thing I said to her. 'I loved you as Morgan Le Fay.'

Nicolas Cage

#14. With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.

Kobe Bryant

#17. Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

James M. Barrie

#18. Clearly it was time to consider rescheduling that optometrist appointment I'd missed last fall.

Kelley Armstrong

#19. I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.

Douglas Lockwood

#20. Her emotional strength is one of the many reasons I'm so wildly attracted to her. Yes, she's the most beautiful creature I've ever seen, but I'm spellbound by the entire package. She stands up to me when she thinks I'm wrong, yet grows wet beneath the force of my voice and the heat of my belt.

Pam Godwin

#21. When a man grows old his joy
Grows more deep day after day,
His empty heart is full at length
But he has need of all that strength
Because of the increasing Night
That opens her mystery and fright.

William Butler Yeats

#22. Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

Louis L'Amour

#23. It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Alexander Pope

#25. A chain grows weaker with each new link.

Marty Rubin

#26. At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Osamu Dazai

#27. There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

Rumi

#28. The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

Timothy Keller

#29. Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

Seneca.

#30. The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Sakyong Mipham

#31. Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.

Watchman Nee

#32. Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Francis Bacon

#33. You are a tedious fool.

William Shakespeare

#34. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

#35. How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things which are not.

John Keats

#36. When you're born in fire, smoke will never do.

Leonard Ravenhill

#37. Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother.

Steven Morrissey