Quotes about Strength
Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far off, men swell, bully and threaten: bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhat made useful to him. ...Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these [158] have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our strength grows out of our weakness
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Hero is not fed on sweets Daily his own heart he eats
— Ralph Waldo Emerson