Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul with all his strength and with all his will. – Max Muller
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. – Paul Cezanne
When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. – Audre Lorde
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. – Harriet Tubman
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. – Robert Green Ingersoll
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. – Michel de Montaigne
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. – Euripides
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. – Jonathan Swift
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. – Ovid
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. – Lewis Carroll
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength. – George W. Bush
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. – E. O. Wilson
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. – Cesar Chavez
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won. – Bryant H. McGill
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. – Herman Melville
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. – James M. Barrie
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God. – Walter Martin
