strength

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘strength’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “That’s one strength that Stevie has. She’s really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.” -Lindsey Buckingham

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  • “Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity.” -David Hare

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  • “I’m not slick. I’m not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.” -Billy Bush

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  • “From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power – a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.” -Alex Campbell

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  • “Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.” -Randy Neugebauer

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  • “How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It’s one of the reasons we have campaigns.” -Tammy Bruce

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  • “In view of China’s growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia’s permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.” -Jim Costa

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  • “The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.” -Daniel Nathans

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  • “Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.” -Jerry Costello

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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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  • “What I miss today more than anything else – I don’t go to church as much anymore – but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.” -Ernest Gaines

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  • “My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America’s strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.” -Ernest Istook

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  • “With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.” -Alphonsus Liguori

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  • “At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.” -Lee Greenwood

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  • “When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.” -Sam Raimi

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  • “But I really like hosting, I think it’s a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I’m funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.” -Garry Shandling

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  • “At Casablanca we did ‘Midnight Express,’ ‘Flashdance,’ and ‘The Deep.’ My willingness for risk has always been my strength.” -Peter Guber

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  • “The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.” -Aisha Tyler

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  • “Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.” -Sophie Swetchine

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  • “I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.” -Ann Bancroft

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  • “My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.” -Anthony Anderson

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  • “The serve, I was too young and too small and… not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that’s why I think…

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  • “The first thing is that we’re being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They’re trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.” -John Frankenheimer

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  • “America’s downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country’s eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.” -Mohamed El-Erian

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  • “You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I’ve had it. I haven’t got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don’t get a lot of expression on the keyboard.” -Midge Ure

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  • “We get strength and encouragement from watching children.” -Hayao Miyazaki

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  • “The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I’m particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.” -Bernard Ebbers

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  • “First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.” -William Bartram

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  • “My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it’s a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month’s time, so it’s going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I’m good to go…

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  • “Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been this city’s greatest strength.” -Jane Byrne

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  • “There’s a lot of strength in the U.S., but there’s a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We’re going to have to face up to some realities that we’re not fully facing up to right now.” -Jeffrey Sachs

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  • “Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.” -Rachel Maddow

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  • “Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.” -Georg Brandes

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  • “What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.” -Geraldine Ferraro

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  • “There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.” -Fay Wray

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  • “We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there’s a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.” -Jerry Stiller

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  • “Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.” -Gijs de Vries

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  • “Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked ‘Howl’s Moving Castle.’ Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.” -Stephen Hunter

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  • “While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.” -Louise Slaughter

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  • “When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.” -Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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  • “Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don’t want to downplay it.” -Gerhard Schroder

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  • “I mean I’m not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it’s right and when it’s wrong and that’s what my strength is.” -Jim Cramer

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  • “With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.” -Michael Landon

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  • “The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.” -Robert Teeter

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  • “The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.” -Georg Buchner

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  • “The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.” -Chen Shui-bian

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  • “The fact that we’re going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We’re actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.” -George Papandreou

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  • “On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.” -Patrick J. Kennedy

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  • “Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.” -Theodore C. Sorensen

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  • “My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.” -Marge Piercy

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  • “I believe it’s time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.” -Janelle Monae

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  • “Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.” -Esther Williams

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  • “Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.” -Beyonce Knowles

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  • “It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama’s strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn’t the easy thing.” -Harry Reid

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  • “Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don’t really have that strength inside to fly.” -Andrew Shue

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  • “The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they’re drenched in sweat.” -Gina Carano

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  • “Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you’re not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.” -Nicole Scherzinger

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  • “I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.” -Mark-Paul Gosselaar

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  • “If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.” -Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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  • “Social Security is not just the foundation of America’s retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state’s economy.” -Debbie Stabenow

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  • “I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.” -Joshua Lederberg

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  • “I like strength. I depend on my own.” -Shelby Lynne

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  • “Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.” -James Anthony Froude

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  • “The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.” -Paul Harris

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  • “The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent’s playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.” -Vladimir Kramnik

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  • “We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.” -John Dos Passos

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  • “I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.” -Allyson Felix

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  • “It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.” -Stephen Lewis

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  • “Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.” -Dorothy Day

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  • “By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn’t going to solve issues on the APY lands.” -Jay Weatherill

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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 have the strength to endure it all.” -Moshe Dayan

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  • “Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?” -Ivan Turgenev

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  • “He’s an innocent in a lot of ways. He’s a very simple person who really doesn’t have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.” -Jared Leto

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  • “What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.” -Hassan Nasrallah

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  • “I’d try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn’t always work.” -Kristi Yamaguchi

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  • “Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.” -Charles Francis Richter

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  • “I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training… you name it. I’ve got to!” -Laurieann Gibson

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  • “Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.” -Bill Owens

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  • “We’ve worked very hard as a band and would like to think we’ve got this far on the strength of our music.” -Caroline Corr

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  • “I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn’t get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.” -Michel Gondry

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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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  • “It’s all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.” -Meghan O’Rourke

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  • “It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there’d be consequences if they didn’t move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.” -Warren Christopher

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  • “I feel like it’s always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It’s often times your greatest ‘flaw’ which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.” -Olivia Thirlby

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  • “It’s really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.” -Carson Kressley

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  • “Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.” -Ann Richards

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  • “Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.” -Christian Lous Lange

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  • “My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.” -Queen Elizabeth II

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  • “I’m an activist for gay marriage equality and children’s rights. I’m the face of Share Our Strength.” -Sandra Lee

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  • “An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.” -Adam Schiff

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  • “I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family… the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.” -Adriana Trigiani

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  • “I’ve never found therapy to be a sign of weakness I’ve found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.” -Brooke Shields

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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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  • “Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.” -Charles de Secondat

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  • “The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.” -Robert Shea

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  • “I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don’t come along every day.” -Linda Hunt

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  • “My strength is my enthusiasm.” -Placido Domingo

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  • “We’ve got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.” -Peter Mandelson

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  • “There is a growing strength in women but it’s in the forehead, not the forearm.” -Beverly Sills

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  • “You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.” -Star Jones

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  • “Women’s strength, women’s industry, women’s wisdom are humankind’s greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.” -Michelle Bachelet

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  • “I’ve been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.” -Taraji P. Henson

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  • “Well first of all it’s a business and it’s a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that’s getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.” -Robert Redford

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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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  • “A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.” -Greg Walden

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  • “The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that’s clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.” -Al-Waleed bin Talal

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  • “Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.” -David Brainerd

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  • “The ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of ‘fair competition.’ It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.” -Ai Weiwei

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  • “Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.” -Michelle Malkin

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  • “The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.” -Colin Farrell

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  • “Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.” -Frances Rodman

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  • “Physical strength in a woman – that’s what I am.” -Tina Turner

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  • “Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.” -Gary Locke

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  • “And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She’s cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I’d be happy to be there at 86.” -Lisa Scottoline

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  • “Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.” -Sid Waddell

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  • “And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.” -Allen Klein

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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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  • “They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.” -Diana Ross

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  • “Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.” -Conrad Black

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  • “As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.” -Tom Colicchio

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  • “I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.” -Guy Forget

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  • “For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He’s right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.” -Brian Mulroney

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  • “I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.” -Lindsey Graham

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  • “Vampires are so old that they don’t need to impress anyone anymore. They’re comfortable in their own skin. It’s this enigmatic strength that’s very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who’s going to look after his woman.” -Stephen Moyer

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  • “He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.” -William Samuel Johnson

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  • “Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That’s the key.” -Jack LaLanne

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  • “As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.” -George Mason

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  • “I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.” -Ossie Davis

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  • “If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won’t have much strength and, eventually, we won’t have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a…

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  • “I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.” -Ian Mcewan

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  • “Without strength and courage it’s really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you’re alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.” -Scott Hamilton

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  • “Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that’s not just measured in words or gestures.” -Jennifer M. Granholm

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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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  • “The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.” -John L. Lewis

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  • “If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.” -Brittany Murphy

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  • “The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that’s what gave me the strength.” -Ariel Sharon

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  • “Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.” -Martin Amis

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  • “We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.” -Alain Robert

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  • “I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.” -Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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  • “I can’t just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I’m going to take off for three months of my life.” -Emmanuelle Beart

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  • “I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.” -Wesley Snipes

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  • “I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.” -Barbara Corcoran

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  • “He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.” -Ben Jonson

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  • “I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.” -Larry Hagman

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  • “You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.” -Steve Case

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  • “Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they’re doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.” -Joe Nichols

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  • “My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.” -Bear Grylls

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  • “I’m coming from a place of total strength and humility now.” -Robert Downey, Jr.

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  • “I don’t think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.” -Little Richard

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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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  • “I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it’s own greatest strength – it’s diversity.” -Melissa Etheridge

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  • “I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.” -George Clooney

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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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  • “But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.” -Jason Mraz

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  • “So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.” -Angela Merkel

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  • “I’m not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.” -Joan Didion

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  • “Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.” -Shimon Peres

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  • “Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.” -A. N. Wilson

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  • “Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.” -William Gurnall

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  • “There’s a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.” -Arthur Scargill

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  • “Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.” -Maggie Kuhn

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  • “Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.” -Meir Kahane

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  • “Britain’s great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we’re not using it.” -James Dyson

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  • “The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on ‘Iron Chef’ for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I’m doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.” -Cat Cora

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  • “I want kids to understand that strength doesn’t come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.” -Willie Aames

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  • “To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.” -Lawrence Clark Powell

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  • “At some point, you can’t lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.” -Vinton Cerf

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  • “I’ll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I’ve been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can’t hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.” -Alison Sweeney

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  • “There’s a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.” -Tony Kushner

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  • “My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.” -Malcolm Muggeridge

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  • “I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.” -Pedro Almodovar

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  • “I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they’ve given me to overcome so much.” -Ricky Williams

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  • “Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.” -Sextus Propertius

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  • “Grudge no expense – yield to no opposition – forget fatigue – till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .” -Maria Weston Chapman

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  • “I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!” -Betty White

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  • “The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.” -Richard L. Evans

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  • “Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.” -Alexis Carrel

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  • “We can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that’s not just measured in words or gestures.” -Jennifer Granholm

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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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