“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.”
Strength is not always loud. These quotes explore physical power, mental toughness, emotional resilience, and the quiet kind of strength that shows up as consistency when everything around you is falling apart.
“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”
“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.”
“Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.”
“I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.”
“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”
“A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.”
“Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.”
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
“I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.”
“I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.”
“You're blessed if you have the strength to work.”
“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”
“What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.”