Strength

Famous quotes containing the word strength:

“Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.”
—Cesare Pavese (1908–1950)

“Curse of the orchard,
Blemish on the land’s fair countenance,
I have grown strong for strength denied, for struggle
In hostile woods. I keep alive by being the troublesome,
Indestructible
Stinkweed of truth.”
—Naomi Long Madgett (b. 1923)

“The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)