The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no…

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where…

— Clarence Darrow

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

— Wendell Phillips

Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle at the…

— Michael Josephson

“When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To be filled with the Spirit is to be controlled by the Spirit. The Christian leader’s mind, emotions, will, and physical strength all become…

— J Oswald Sanders

Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

— Martha McSally

True self-reliance does not mean reliance on one's physical strength; it means reliance on something mightier, something which is less perishable... It means trusting…

— Swami Paramananda

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.

— Kuno Becker

“Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin…

— Haruki Murakami

“Distinctively gentle he was, and trustworthy, and of special courtesy. His great physical strength was never used in combat, men remembered, except when needed…

— Nancy Byrd Turner

“He found himself grinning at her. His nervousness had disappeared, and suddenly he had a sense of his own size, his physical strength, his…

— Howard Fast

“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male…

— G. Stanley Hall