Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage: be not afraid, neither bethoudismayed: for the L thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDJoshua1:9.

And hesaiduntothem,Outoftheeatercameforthmeat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Judges14:14.

   Igothewayofall theearth: bethoustrong therefore,and shew thyself a man.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 2:2.

Be strong, and quit yourselves like men.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel 4:9.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 9:11

   Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Joel 3:10.

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians16:13.

Es ist derVorzug und das Wesen der Starken, dass sie die groÞen Entscheidungsfragen stellen und zu ihnen klar Stellung nehmen k o« nnen. Die Schwachen mu«  ssen sich immer zwischen Alternativen entscheiden, die nicht die ihren sind. It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

-Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Widerstand und Ergebung,'Ein paar Gedanken u«  ber Verschiedenes' (translated1953).

In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift, The battle to the strong. See Bible101:85.

-Davidson,John
  'War Song', stanza1.

O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.

-Denham, SirJohn
  Of the Thames. Cooper's Hill, l.189^92.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Representative Men,'Goethe'.

Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twentyand forty.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
  Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

To disarm the strong and arm the weak would be to change the social order which it's my job to preserve. Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

-Thibault
Crainquebille.

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

-Fuller, (Sarah) Margaret, Marchioness Ossoli
  'The Great Lawsuit', in Dial, vol.4,  Jul.

Even if I die in the service of this nation,I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood,I am sure, will contribute to the growth of this nation and make it strong and dynamic.

-Gandhi, Indira Priyad Arshini
  Speech at Orissa, 31 Oct, the day before her assassination.

It takes up no falling cause; fights no uphill battle; advocatesnogreat principle; holdsout a helping hand to no oppressed or obscure individual. It is 'ever strong upon the stronger side'.

-Hazlitt,William
  Of  The Times. In the Edinburgh Review, May.

The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Frederic Henry.  A Farewell to  Arms, ch.34.

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

-Hofstadter, Richard
Quoted in Hedrick Smith The Power Game (1988).

Man wants but little drink below, But wants that little strong.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
  'A Song of Other Days'.

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes. But I laugh And eat well, And grow strong.

-Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston
  'I, Too', in Survey Graphic, Mar.