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During the course of life, we are faced with situations that make us feel insecure. Phrases of strength are a way to feed the vigor within oneself of remembering that, with will and perseverance, many of those apparent limits will be revealed as an illusion.
The most memorable phrases of strength
We have put together a compilation of the best phrases of strength that their authors show us how to perceive it, understand it and use it in moments of weakness.
1. There is no reason where there is strength (Pedro Calderón De La Barca)
In this phrase of strength by Calderón de la Barca, you can see the relationship he makes between reason and strength, showing the latter as a primitive expression.
2. We lack sufficient strength to follow all our reason. (Rochefoucauld)
About alternative paths in situations where force does not prevail.
3. If you have the strength, we have the right (Victor Hugo)
A way of expressing the way in which force can create situations of oppression.
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4. The fleeing firefly regains strength on its sleeve (Kobayashi Issa)
This beautiful phrase of strength told us about transformations.
5. We both know what each other feels inside and with the strength of lions they kiss our souls (Jens August Schade)
This phrase expresses the strength of desire between two people.
6. There are different types of force applications and you should use all of them (Bruce Lee)
About conscious use of all your resources. Probably the actor meant not only physical strength.
7. A free man is one who, having the strength and talent to do something, finds no obstacles to his will. (Thomas Hobbes)
Strength as fuel, as the fundamental piece to achieve our goals.
8. Strength lies in love and anyone who loves a lot, does a lot and can achieve a lot, because that is what love does (Vincent Van Gogh)
This phrase about strength exposes it as the basis of the love that builds.
9. The man who is swimming against the current knows his strength (Woodrow Wilson)
To undertake any projects we must know what we have to obtain a good result.
10. By choice or by force, you live on what you deny (Jean Rostand)
We cannot hide what happens to us at some point, each situation has an energy that will soon move our lives.
11. Thoughts combined with any of the emotions constitute a “magnetic” force that attracts other similar or related thoughts (Napoleon Hill)
This phrase refers to that force that interrelates us.
12. When you possess strength you stop invoking justice (Gustave Le Bon)
In this phrase, force is exposed as a means to achieve something in any way.
13. A great thunder broke the deep sleep of my mind, so that like a man who wakes up by force, I recovered; With my sight restored, I turned around, already standing, staring, because I wanted to know where he was (Dante Alighieri)
About what strength gives you in moments of discouragement.
14. The forces released cannot be stopped. Wanting to ignore them is simply turning your back on the world (Norman Mailer)
What has power manifests itself in some way, it is better to know it and you become our ally.
15. The secret of your strength is in the strength of your desires (Sigmund Freud)
In this phrase from Freud, it refers to the energy or impulse that we concentrate on something we want.
16. Life… This word summarizes all the riches of the universe that are there, undifferentiated, chaotic, waiting for a force to come to organize them (Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov)
In this phrase of strength, it is understood as that energy that changes.
17. When I investigate and discover that the force of the heavens and the planets is within ourselves, then I sincerely feel like I am living among the gods (León Battista Alberti)
The power of the universe within us can lead us to do important things.
18. The surest measure of all strength is the resistance it overcomes (Stefan Zweig)
In this phrase, force is seen as a powerful weapon.
19. Faith is the force of genius. To magnetize an era you need to love your ideal and transform it into passion (José Ingenieros)
Strength brings changes as a consequence of maintaining an active spirit and will.
20. This is not a novel to be set aside lightly; should be thrown with great force (Dorothy Parker)
In this phrase, force becomes an opinion.
21. How good it is to be like this! Always rowing upwards, and even if everything goes wrong, having the strength to continue (Celeste Carballo)
This phrase shows a force as support.
22. Without a decisive naval force we cannot do anything definitive. And with it, all that is honorable and glorious (George Washington)
There are forces that are necessary for its value in achieving the objectives.
23. We always attract into our lives what we believe in most strongly, what we long for most deeply, what we imagine most realistically (Shakti Gawain)
Strength has the power to make things happen.
24. Do not despair, not even because you do not despair. When all seems over, new forces arise. This means that you live (Franz Kafka)
Strength as a revitalizing element.
25. To deploy forces, you must have a good reason. The country must be behind these forces. And they must be trained, prepared and supported (Tom Clancy)
The use of force must be directed with intelligence and prudence.
26. Strength is not energy. Certain authors have more muscles than talent (Joseph Joubert)
A different way of conceptualizing force.
27. Be, therefore, conscious possessors of the blessed force that you carry within yourselves (Leopoldo Lugones)
This phrase invites us to know the dimension that our strength has.
28. The strength that she carries within herself must be experienced as a kind of lost intelligence that is no longer of any use to her. Marguerite Duras
This phrase refers to when we waste a quality or value and that can be against us.
29. Even the most powerful of human beings has a limited sphere of strength. Take him out of that sphere and attract him to yours; his strength will dissipate (Morihei Ueshiba)
Take advantage of the container’s weakness to turn it into your tool. One of the most inspiring phrases of strength
30. But I am voracious with life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly, one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will take me like it took my father. But I’m not afraid of the crab. At least I will have died of an honorable disease. Perhaps, on my tombstone, they will inscribe: “This man died by living too long” (Ian Fleming)
I tell this becomes the energy that moves every small part of life.
31. My father once told me: There are some who have to give the blood, others have to give the strength, so while we can, let’s give the strength (Rigoberta Menchú)
This phrase positions force as a solidarity resource.
32. Making the journey at night, the distant lights gave me strength by themselves, by themselves, yesterday, today and tomorrow too (Ko Un)
This phrase about strength tells us that sometimes memories or desires are the energy that accompanies us.
33. I want to be a force for change (Damian Marley)
A life motto that speaks of passion for personal growth
34. It was his motto. Part of his motto, at least. “Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destiny” (Brandon Sanderson)
The strength within the priorities of life.
35. You went from one side of the city to the other, walking through its streets towards your freedom, and I walked towards you, without knowing or understanding what that force was that drove me to continue moving forward (Marc Levy)
The strength of the people who inspire us.
36. What is the secret of the strength that allowed you to pick flowers in dung? (Boris Cyrulnik)
About impulses that move us towards unexpected situations.
37. A small spark is followed by a big flame (Dante Alighieri)
Things that start small they become big projects
38. The only forces that favor us are our forces (Ygo Betti)
Everyone has and uses the strength they need.
39. Force is the immediate vital and primary principle of despotism (Thomas Jefferson)
A wise aphorism about strength.
40. I am more than I appear, all the strength and power in the world is within me (Robien Sharma)
Referring to vigor as a quality.
41. He who has the will has the strength (Meander)
The will nourishes the strength to achieve the objectives.
42. The most annoying men in the world are those who have more energy than abilities (Georg Lichtemberg)
A reflection on one of the types of people characterized by the inability to channel their potential.
43. The strongest is never strong enough to always be the master, if he does not transform his strength into right and obedience into duty (Rousseau)
This phrase about strength tells us that the manifestation of love is always the same
44. We do not know, it is true, the way in which these bodies act among themselves. Its forces and energies are totally incomprehensible (Hume)
A philosophical reflection about the reason why things happen.
45. Don’t ask for a light load, ask for Strong backs (Theodore Rooselvet)
With strength we can undertake any project.
46. Look, in life there are no solutions, but forces at work. They must be created, and the solutions come (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Objectives are achieved by being in constant movement.
47. Although the prince must persuade the people, convince them, he must also use force, because when they no longer believe him, he can be made to believe by force (Machiavelli)
A phrase about force applied to politics.
48. Only balance annihilates force (Simone Weil)
It means that when we have everything under control the flow of things is slower.
49. Fortune always favors the strong (Terrence)
Revaluing the positive aspects of being strong in our life
50. I love strength, and of the strength I love, an ant can show as much as an elephant (Stendal)
About the intensity of emotions and how they influence our feeling towards life.
51. The strong destroy each other and the weak continue to live (George Bernad Shaw)
There is an energy that makes strong people dare to carry out projects that transform us.
52. The weakness of strength is not believing in anything but strength (Paul Valery)
Do not polarize our approach.
53. It is lawful to repel force with force (Ulpiano)
There are things that cannot be used against oneself.
54. Exaggerating one’s own strength means discovering one’s own weakness (Emile Giradin)
This phrase emphasizes to us that everything must be spontaneous
55. This is what we say when we don’t want to show our weakness, we say, Well, even though we are dying, this is what the masses call pleading, a phenomenon of visceral conversion that has only been observed in the human species (José Saramago)
A sample of this writer’s ingenuity.
56. There is no strength that is enough if you do not support it (Tómas de Kempis)
We are what we manage our capabilities.
57. I will continue (Leonardo Da Vinci)
This phrase of strength sums up the power of strength.
58. Compound interest is the most powerful force in the Universe (Albert Einstein)
Einstein was a genius in physics and was also a great expert on the mechanisms of economics.
59. Strength does not come from physical ability, but from an indomitable will (Mahatma Gandhi)
The will of the people, as long as it has a clean intention, will triumph over all things.
60. The forces that combine for good do not add up, they multiply (Concepción Arenal)
A phrase that we must take into account when carrying out any collective enterprise with other people.
61. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The worst experiences we live will always give us strength for the future.
62. Love is the force that moves the world
A truly moving phrase that many of us can agree with.
63. Peace cannot be maintained by force. It can only be achieved through understanding. (Albert Einstein)
Einstein always fought for a world in peace and away from wars.
64. The world breaks anyone. Many become strong in broken places. But those who don’t break die (Ernest Hemingway)
Hemingway’s literature is loaded with pessimistic and unedifying messages.
65. Nothing is so difficult that it cannot achieve strength (Julius Caesar)
Thanks to his strength and intelligence, Julius Caesar was the winner in most of the military and political conflicts he experienced.
66. Force can never persuade men; it only succeeds in making them hypocrites (François Fénelon)
A truly provocative phrase from one of the most important French theologians and poets of the 17th century.
67. In the depths of winter I finally learned that an invincible summer lived within me (Albert Camus)
68. Love through force is worthless, force without love is energy spent in vain (Albert Einstein)
69. May the force be with you (Star Wars)
One of the most famous slogans of this film saga created by George Lucas.
70. Unity is strength (Spanish proverb)
A perspective that we must take into account in our daily lives.
71. Love is the most humble, but the most powerful force available to the world. (Mahatma Gandhi)
One of the most remembered phrases of this great Indian politician and activist.
72. With the new day, come new strength and new thoughts (Eleanor Roosevelt)
A new day will always be an opportunity to improve in life.
73. Strength grows in proportion to burden (Thomas Wentworth Higginson)
The burdens we bear throughout our existence will help us become stronger.
74. There is no strong or consistent tree except the one that the wind frequently whips (Seneca)
The more a person suffers in life, the stronger he will be in the future.
75. You feel your strength in the experience of pain (Jim Morrison)
This American songwriter and rock star experienced some hardships in his life that made him stronger.
76. The force of love is something tremendous. Love is something that transforms the entire world (Tennessee Williams)
This great American playwright is considered one of the most influential of the 20th century and his phrases have remained engraved in the collective imagination.
77. We all have enough strength to endure the misfortune of others (François de La Rochefoucauld)
In difficult periods we must be strong to weather our own and others’ hardships.
78. The more the thoughts are held, the more the mind concentrates, and consequently it gains more strength and power (Swami Sivananda)
Mental control will make us much stronger psychologically.
79. It’s amazing how willpower can build walls (Yann Martel)
Nothing is stronger in the world than the willpower of a human being.
80. The soft is stronger than the hard; water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than violence (Hermann Hesse)
The force of love has proven to be much more effective than any violence.
81. You have to face things with courage, you know. There are some things that cannot be avoided even if we want to, no matter how desirable that may be. Strength. Resignation… (Taylor Caldwell)
The strongest people are those who face what they encounter throughout their lives regardless of the consequences.
82. A hero is an ordinary man who finds the strength to persevere and survive the obstacles that stand in his way (Christopher Reeve)
Personal strength lies in the ability to face any adversity.
83. A brave man is able to recognize the strength of others (Verónica Roth)
One of the main signs of strength in people.
84. Strong people create their events; the weak suffer what fate imposes on them (Alfred Victor de Vigny)
Being strong means being able to direct one’s future and create opportunities to achieve one’s goals.
85. It doesn’t take much strength to do things, but it takes great strength to decide what to do (Elbert Hubbard)
Willpower can achieve incredible feats.
86. Where there is no fight, there is no strength (Oprah Winfrey)
A very inspiring phrase from one of the best-known faces on American television.
87. Good deeds give us strength and inspire good deeds in others (Samuel Smiles)
We must lead by example and try to help our loved ones become better people.
88. In the face of imminent danger, strength is what counts (Lucano)
Fortitude is a life strategy that allows us to face danger whatever it may be.
89. Fire tests gold; misery strong men (Seneca)
It is in the most terrible situations that we demonstrate our strength.
90. The turning point in the growth process is when you discover the core of strength within, which survives all wounds (Max Lerner)
Once we discover what our strengths are, we can dedicate ourselves to training them.
91. Be faithful in the small things, since it is in them that your strength lies (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
This Catholic nun found strength and virtuosity in the small details of the day.
92. Don’t expect to build up the weak, pulling down the strong (Calvin Coolidge)
Strength is achieved through hard work and promoting effort.
93. It is not wise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to remember that the strongest can weaken and the wise can make mistakes (Gandhi)
A piece of advice that we must take into account to achieve virtuosity and not go off the beaten track.
94. Nature has always had more strength than education. (Voltaire)
Nature is unstoppable in all its facets and stops at nothing.
95. The man who fears nothing is as strong as the one who is feared by everyone (Otto von Bismark)
Someone’s strength is usually feared by their enemies.
96. There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy: the will (Albert Einstein)
A phrase that we can keep in mind every day of our lives.
97. A strong woman is a woman determined to do something that others are determined not to do (Marge Piercy)
The women who have gone down in history are those who broke stereotypes and made their own luck in life.
98. The gods only protect the strong (Troy)
One of the most remembered phrases of the great king Agamemnon.
99. He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is powerful (Lao Tzu)
Sometimes we are our strongest enemy.
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