Best Quotes About Strength (Top 100)
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
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Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran
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Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van Gogh
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
August Wilson
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
Bruce Lee
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Maya Angelou
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
Judith Viorst
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When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
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I love those who can smile in trouble...
Leonardo da Vinci
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I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
Mother Teresa
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Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
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Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Joseph Campbell
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
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Don't cry for a man who's left you—the next one may fall for your smile.
Mae West
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Henry Rollins
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
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You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.
Bob Marley
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go
Hermann Hesse
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer
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It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.
Betty Friedan
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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
Maya Angelou
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
Stephen King
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou
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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn
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There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.
Bill Belichick
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Rudyard Kipling
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Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
Og Mandino
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
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Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
Sidney Sheldon
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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
Oscar Wilde
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When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.
Swami Vivekananda
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
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I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.
Ani DiFranco
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The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
Ronald Reagan
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
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Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!
Sylvester Stallone
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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
Robert E. Lee
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
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Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
Ronald Reagan
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
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You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!
Queen Latifah
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon Howard
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato
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Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation
Judith Orloff
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Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham
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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
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We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexander
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For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
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There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
William Wordsworth
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
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The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.
Life and love go on, let the music play.
Johnny Cash
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy
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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Peter Marshall
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Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself â and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.
Chief Joseph
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov
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I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Harriet Tubman
Even More Strength Quotes
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Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Marva Collins
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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Robert Kiyosaki
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone
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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor
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One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
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The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.
Richard Allen
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver
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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller
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Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
Evan Esar
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It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.
Demi Lovato
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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
Thucydides
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
E. e. cummings
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Alain Badiou
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When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.
Dr. Seuss
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
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The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
Gene Roddenberry
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
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Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.
Caroline Myss
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
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Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
Marilyn vos Savant
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Allen
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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore
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Differences can be a strength.
Condoleezza Rice
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My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Carly Fiorina
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To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
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I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'
Katherine Dunham
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Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.
Giuseppe Mazzini
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
Adolf Hitler
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Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out
Katherine Dunham
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When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.
Joss Whedon
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
Democritus
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
Felix Frankfurter
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
Branch Rickey
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus
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I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
Janet Jackson
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
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I was only given this life because I'm strong enough to live it
Robert Pattinson
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Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
Gregory Peck
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From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
Cesar Chavez
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The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
Aime Cesaire
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Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
James Allen
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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
Ernest Shackleton
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To disarm the people is the best and most effectual Way to enslave them.
George Mason
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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
Ruth Gordon
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Paul Cezanne
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You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley
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Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
Alex Karras
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Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.
Bell hooks
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Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
Lennox Lewis
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson
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It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves
Anna Garlin Spencer
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
Albert Einstein
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
Charles Darwin
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Our passion is our strength.
Billie Joe Armstrong
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For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Barbra Streisand
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Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden
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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
Arnold Palmer
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
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Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
Liberace
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Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.
Bob Riley
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
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A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
Marge Piercy
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I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
Josephine Baker
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin
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You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
Louise Erdrich
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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Rebecca West
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.
Starhawk
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Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
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If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness
Jack Handy
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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson
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He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
Ben Jonson
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Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Henry Drummond
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
Hal Borland
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The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.
Jack Johnson
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Euripides
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
Ben Elton
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In union there is strength.
Aesop
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese
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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
Alfred Jarry
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer
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I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.
Elisabeth Shue
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Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
Eleanor Roosevelt
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For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love ...
Carter Heyward
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My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn
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Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.
James Hetfield
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I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence Sterne
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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.
James Freeman Clarke
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Oprah Winfrey
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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Tryon Edwards
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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
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If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.
Harvey S. Firestone
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
John Milton
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
Bruce Jenner
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak
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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
Sean O'Casey
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
John Cheever
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The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill
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Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.
L. Ron Hubbard
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You can deal with stressful life experiences with strength from past ones.
Kelly McGonigal
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When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
Thorstein Veblen
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I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.
Albert Wynn
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
William Shenstone
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Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
John Huston Finley
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We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.
John Hoeven
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France
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Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Edward Young
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Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
Charlotte Bunch
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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
Thomas Merton
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To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time.
Bruce Jenner
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
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I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis
Bill Rodgers
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Ovid
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You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
Cesar Chavez
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de Stael
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Helen Keller
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Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection
Thomas Paine
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Jean Anouilh
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Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
Lisa Murkowski
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A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
Marjorie Holmes
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
Anne Bronte
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Strength is a matter of a made up mind.
John Beecher
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No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
Sigmund Freud
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Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Thomas Fuller
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Cesare Pavese
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There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
Beverly Sills
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Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.
Eva Burrows
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
Herman Melville
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To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
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The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Charles Darwin
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By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
Jackie Mason
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David Hare
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The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might
Charles H. Spurgeon
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There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
Winston Churchill
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We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
Ben Nelson
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I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.
Dudley Moore
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Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
Winston Churchill
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Lillian Hellman
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Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
Lebanese Proverb
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There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
Henry Tuckerman
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Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
Karen Horney
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I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Antonio Porchia
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My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.
Benjamin Bratt
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
Black Elk
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck
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Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.
Chinese Proverbs
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I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.
Robert Browning
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Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire
Arab Proverb
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Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Strength lies not in defence but in attack
Adolf Hitler
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I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.
Cindy Sheehan
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Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul Richter
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Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."
Coventry Patmore
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Hermann Hesse
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In seperateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength
Buddha
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A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
Winston Churchill
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Union gives strength.
Aesop
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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
Vince Lombardi
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Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.
Elisabeth Shue
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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
Abraham Lincoln
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone de Beauvoir
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You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.
William Albert Allard
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What does not kill you makes you stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
Barry Goldwater
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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao Tzu