“Cunning surpasses strength.”
“Strength is a matter of a made up mind.”
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“The people rate strength before everything.”
“Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.”
“The burden is equal to the horse's strength.”
לפום גמלא שיחנא
Text: Wikisource Talmud Bavli via Sefaria (CC-BY-SA)
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.”
“Physical strength in a woman -- that's what I am.”
“Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.”
“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
“We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.”
“The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.”
“There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.”
“Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.”
“Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.”
“Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.”
“The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.”
“How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.”
“Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.”
“Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.”
“There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
“Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.”
“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.”
“Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.”
“I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of success.”
“It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.”
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”
“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces.”
“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”