This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength." - James Bryant Conant
"All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world." - James Freeman Clarke
"One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose." - Jean Anouilh, fully Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh
"By patience and time we sever what strength and rage could never." - Jean de La Fontaine
"The earth is bathed in music... The drive towards 'synchonicity' and harmony is elemental and universal so it becomes comprehensible that the 'hidden' harmony within ourselves provides us with the strength to find the 'hidden' harmony in the cosmos and universe. The more 'chaotic' and 'atonal' the cluster, the more quickly the harmony develops. Disharmony is a springboard fostering the harmony within ourselves." - Joachim-Ernst Berendt
"What the world craves today is a more spiritual and less formal religion. To the man or woman facing death, great conflict, the big problems of human life, the forms of religion are of minor concern, while the spirit of religion is a desperately needed source of inspiration, comfort and strength." - John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.
"It is wonderful what strength and boldness of purpose and energy will come from the feeling that we are in the way of duty." - John Foster, fully John Watson Foster
"What is strength without a double share of wisdom? Vast, unwieldy, burdensome; proudly secure, yet liable to fall by weakest subtleties; not made to rule, but to subserve where wisdom bears command." - John Milton
"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty." - John Ruskin
"God gives us always strength enough and sense enough, for every thing he wants us to do." - John Ruskin
"No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time." - John Ruskin
"Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life, the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim." - John Ruskin
"Wise laws and just restrains are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, strength and defense, though something of an encumbrance." - John Ruskin
"Because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. that so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time." - John Stuart Mill
"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time." - John Stuart Mill
"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time." - John Stuart Mill
"In true silence strength is renewed, and the mind is weaned from all things, save as they may be enjoyed in the Divine will; and a lowliness in outward living, opposite to worldly honour, becomes truly acceptable to us." - John Woolman
"To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge, carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man." - Joseph Addison
"Myths inspire the realization of the possibility of your perfection, the fullness of your strength, and the bringing of solar light into the world." - Joseph Campbell
"There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it." - Josh Billings, pen name for Henry Wheeler Shaw, aka Uncle Esek
"Know your own true worth, and you shall not perish. Reason is your light and beacon of Truth. Reason is the source of Life. God has given you Knowledge, so that by its light you may not only worship him, but also see yourself in your weakness and strength." - Kahlil Gibran
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." - Kahlil Gibran
"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity." - Keshavan Nair
"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." - Leonardo da Vinci, fully Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
"Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do." - Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur
"The old life was attuned to nature’s rhythm – bound in mystical ties to the sun, moon and stars; to the waving grasses, flowing steams and whispering winds. It is not a question… of the white man “bringing the Indian up to his plan of thought and action.” It is rather a case where the white man had better grasp some of the Indian’s spiritual strength." - Luther Standing Bear, aka Ota Kte or Mochunozhin
"Happiness is salutary for the body, but it is sorrow that develops spiritual strength." - Marcel Proust, fully Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
"Everything morally right derives from one of four sources: it concerns either full perception or intelligent development of what is true; or the preservation of organized society, where every man is rendered his due and all his obligations are faithfully discharged; or the greatness and strength of a noble, invincible spirit; or order and moderation in everything said and done, whereby there is temperance and self-control." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"The great affairs of life are not performed by physical strength, or activity, or nimbleness of body, but by deliberation, character, expression of opinion. Of these old age is not only not deprived, but, as a rule, has them in a greater degree." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"Man's great guilt does not lie in the sins he commits, for temptation is great and his strength is limited. Man's great guilt lies in the fact that he can turn away from evil at any moment, and yet he does not." - Martin Buber
"Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men." - Matthew Arnold
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt." - Max Lerner, fully Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner, aka Mikhail Lerner
"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education." - Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
"Some labor with their minds and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others. Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern them are supported by them. This is a universal principal." - Mencius, born Meng Ke or Ko NULL
"In honor of October, really just hours away now..... Brew me a cup for a winter's night. For the wind howls loud and the furies fight; Spice it with love and stir it with care, And I'll toast our bright eyes, my sweetheart fair." - Minna Thomas Antrim
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." - Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu NULL
"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." - Napoleon Hill
"Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny. Mystery, however, is a very necessary ingredient in our lives. Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis for man’s desire to understand. Who knows what mysteries will be solved in our lifetime, and what new riddles will become the challenge of the new generations? Science has not mastered prophesy. We predict too much for next year yet far too little for the next ten. Responding to challenge is one of democracy’s great strengths. Our successes in space lead us to hope that this strength can be used in the next decade in the solution of many of our planet’s problems." - Neil Armstrong, fully Neil Alden Armstrong
"Silence is strength." - Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL
"To grow and know what one is growing towards - that is the source of all strength and confidence in life." - Philip James Bailey
"If each of us can believe that he is working so that the Universe may be raised, in him and through him, to a higher level, then a new spring of energy will well forth in the heart of Earth's workers. The whole organism, overcoming a momentary hesitation, will draw its breath and press on with strength renewed." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every upspringing plant of duty." - Ralph Waldo Emerson