Quotes about Strength
I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
determination, enough courage and faith to meet the difficulties as they developed. When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action...If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's an east wind coming, Watson." "I think not, Holmes. It is very warm." "Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it. What
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
— Audre Lorde
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...
— Audre Lorde
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
— Audre Lorde