"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength." ― Francois de La Rochefoucauld Topic(s): Strength Tags: passions, resist More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld "We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us." "A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant." "We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us." More In Strength "If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard."― Ernest Shackleton "Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished."― Sophie Swetchine "There is a growing strength in women but it’s in the forehead, not the forearm."― Beverly Sills