Strength Quotes
Not just muscle and might, but the inner resolve that carries people through impossible situations.
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"We are shaped not by our circumstances, but by how we respond to them."August Strindberg
"The strongest people are those who have learned to stand alone."Henrik Ibsen
"Strength is not the absence of vulnerability but the courage to be vulnerable."Henrik Ibsen
"Modesty and discipline are the most valuable of all possessions."Boris Pasternak
"Strength is knowing when to bend, not when to break."Boris Pasternak
"Strength is revealed not in never falling, but in always rising."Boris Pasternak
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."Nikolai Gogol
"True strength lies in gentleness."Nikolai Gogol
"When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and dead, it becomes brittle and easily snapped. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliability and weakness are expressions of freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win."Maxim Gorky
"How many stones have been cast at me, yet I am still standing."Anna Akhmatova
"In the face of impossible loss, we discover what we are made of."Anna Akhmatova
"I have learned that strength is not the absence of tears, but weeping and continuing."Anna Akhmatova
"When you have reformed a man, you have not shortened his life."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The worth of a human being cannot be measured in material terms."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"A man's worth is measured by his enemies."Mikhail Lermontov
"True strength lies in gentleness."Mikhail Lermontov
"Strength is not in force, but in will."Mikhail Lermontov
"The strength to carry on is often found in small moments."Vladimir Nabokov
"Strength comes from within."Aleksandr Pushkin
"The weak find strength in numbers; the strong walk alone."Nikolai Gogol
"The greatest power lies in knowing our own weakness."Nikolai Gogol
"Strength comes not from hardness but from flexibility."Boris Pasternak
"The strength of a chain is measured by its weakest link, but the strength of a person by their commitment to their strongest values."Boris Pasternak
"The human being is the crowning work of creation."Maxim Gorky
"True strength lies in admitting weakness."Maxim Gorky
"The human spirit cannot be conquered by force."Maxim Gorky
"Strength of character consists in firmness of purpose."Ivan Turgenev
"True strength is not in the absence of weakness, but in overcoming it."Ivan Turgenev
"The strong endure; the weak perish."Aleksandr Pushkin
"The greatest battles are fought in the mind."Aleksandr Pushkin