proverb · Words worth keeping
Demonstrate staying powerful.
Demonstrate staying powerful.
Historical period not yet established
Understand the thought
Meaning in plain English
The instruction asks for a demonstration of staying powerful. It values maintained capacity rather than merely claiming strength once.
What the words are saying
The wording does not specify the kind of power, audience or task. A qualified application can ask what continuing capability would actually look like. The supplied walking image suggests persistence but does not settle the precise intention, and power should not be assumed to mean control over people.
Everyday example
A reader asks which capability the instruction concerns before using it as advice for an undertaking.
When to use it
Use it to discuss maintained capability with its object explicitly identified.
What it does not mean
The intended kind of power and precise context remain unspecified.
Agent-assisted editorial interpretation. This explains the words; it does not by itself verify their author or earliest origin.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Traditional
Attribution: traditional - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- Historical period not yet established
No sufficiently supported historical placement has been established. Import and download dates are not treated as composition dates. - Recorded source
- Contributor-provided proverb reference
Supplied reference A; unit 234; PDF page 37
A collection's publication date can be later than the words it records.