Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
Mary Wollstonecraft

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller

I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
Shania Twain

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Allen

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
Robert E. Lee

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Francis Bacon

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
Jimmy Carter

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
William J. Clinton

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Harriet Tubman

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
Robert Browning