Human Strength Quotes

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming.

Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the beams of light. There is an Arm that never tires, When human strength gives way. There is a Love that never fails, When earthly loves decay.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

The weak can never forgive.

Get the hell out of my way!

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

If you feel you can't forgive, ask God to penetrate your unforgiveness with His love. When we have to do the impossible, God says that the way it happens is "not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit" (Zechariah 4:6). This means that certain things will not be accomplished by human strength, but only by the power of God. The Holy Spirit will enable us to forgive even the unforgivable.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.