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).
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“All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.” -Sophia Bush
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“It requires more strength to be gentle, so it’s the everyday encounters of life that I think we’ve prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.” -Bob Keeshan
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“I have always drawn strength from being close to home.” -Arthur Ashe
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“I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.” -Evita Peron
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“To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.” -Norman Thomas
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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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“The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.” -Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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“I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.” -Chloe Sevigny
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“We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.” -Carlos Ghosn
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“I think naturally, if you’re an actor, there’s a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There’s boldness in being assertive, and there’s strength and confidence.” -Bryan Cranston
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“I get strength from my art – all the paintings I own are powerful.” -Madonna Ciccone
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“I want to exude strength and intelligence.” -Portia de Rossi
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“I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.” -J. C. Watts
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“The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.” -Lech Walesa
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“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.” -Christopher Lasch
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“My mother’s sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.” -Buffalo Bill
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“Something called ‘the Oklahoma Standard’ became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.” -Brad Henry
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“You had no right to be born for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person’s strength.” -Charlotte Bronte
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“Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they’re so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.” -Orlando Bloom
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“There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.” -Pat Riley
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“God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.” -Richard Holloway
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“When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.” -V. S. Naipaul
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“The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o’er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.” -Robert Browning
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“The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.” -Ninon de L’Enclos
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“The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.” -Benjamin Banneker
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“A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players’ performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.” -Gary Neville
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“I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.” -Novak Djokovic
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“An American, a Negro… two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” -W. E. B. Du Bois
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“I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.” -Anna Quindlen
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“President Obama’s record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.” -William J. Clinton
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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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“Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.” -Richard E. Byrd
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“My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength.” -Antonio Gramsci
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“Don’t kid yourself. President Obama’s decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States’ ‘position of strength’ in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.” -Ron Fournier
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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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“You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.” -Luc de Clapiers
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“True strength is delicate.” -Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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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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“When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.” -Chinua Achebe
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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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“Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.” -Paul Brunton
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“I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn’t occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.” -Thor Heyerdahl
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“As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.” -Alan Thicke
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“If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.” -Karl Von Clausewitz
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“The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.” -Joseph Conrad
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“People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.” -Dennis Prager
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“Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.” -Anna Julia Cooper
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“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.” -Arthur Miller
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“People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I’m very proud to have Latin blood.” -Zoe Saldana
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“Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.” -Russell Brand
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“A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.” -Elizabeth I
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“I’ve been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.” -Maria Sharapova
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“I couldn’t beat people with my strength I don’t have a hard shot I’m not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.” -Wayne Gretzky
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“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.” -Jesse Ventura
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“Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.” -Steven Cojocaru
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“I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn’t know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.” -Herman Cain
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“Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.” -Benjamin Netanyahu
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“Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people’s desire for change.” -Eliot Spitzer
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“As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.” -Emmet Fox
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“The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.” -Audre Lorde
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“From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.” -Francois Rabelais
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“A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it’s important to show that even under all this strength there’s a fragile side, a side that can be affected.” -Sylvester Stallone
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“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.” -Lawrence Welk
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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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“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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“Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.” -Shemar Moore
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“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.” -Pope Paul VI
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“I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international…
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“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.” -Laurence Sterne
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“Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink – such is the bravery of the dog and boar.” -Xun Zi
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“In America, now, let us – Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever – fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one’s enemies. A tall order, that – perhaps the tallest of all.” -Jon Meacham
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“There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.” -Mark Shields
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“It’s always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you’re always afraid that you don’t know your own strength and might hurt someone.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“I have arm-wrestled here and there… guys seem to want to test my strength.” -Shania Twain
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“I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.” -Huey Newton
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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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“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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“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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“It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.” -Walter Scott
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“Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.” -Billy Corgan
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“I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.” -Alexis Arguello
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“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.” -Arthur Helps
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“Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.” -Jean Paul
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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 really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.’” -Mariah Carey
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“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.” -Ralph Cudworth
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“God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.” -Walter Annenberg
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“To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.” -Zsa Zsa Gabor
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“The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.” -James Cash Penney
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“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.” -Germaine Greer
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“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” -Sara Blakely
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“When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.” -Patricia Neal
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“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.” -Phil Jackson
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“The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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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.” -Chiang Kai-shek
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“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.” -Charles Lamb
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“There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.” -Doris Humphrey
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“I’m not just a doormat. I’m not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it’s about trying to find some strength through that.” -Lucinda Williams
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“The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.” -Franz Kafka
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“When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?” -Aeschylus
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“Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.” -William E. Gladstone
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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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“Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.” -Michel Foucault
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“While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.” -Al Gore
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“It’s being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power – if you’re willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.” -Whoopi Goldberg
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“Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.” -Marquis de Sade
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“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.” -Noel Coward
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“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” -Ovid
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“Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.” -Bryant H. McGill
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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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“Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.” -George Sand
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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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“Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.” -Sophia Loren
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“A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.” -Walter Martin
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“In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‘We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.’” -Jimmy Carter
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“The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.” -Leon Trotsky
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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 virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.” -Augustus Hare
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“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.” -Hal Borland
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“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” -Woodrow Wilson
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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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“Our passion is our strength.” -Billie Joe Armstrong
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“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.” -Jack Welch
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“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.” -Miriam Makeba
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“Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.” -Euripides
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“The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.” -George W. Bush
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“Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.” -Jonathan Swift
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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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“There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.” -Lewis Carroll
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“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” -John W. Gardner
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“Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.” -Karen Armstrong
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“Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.” -E. O. Wilson
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“The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.” -Michael Korda
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“In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.” -Marlo Thomas
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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
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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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“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.” -Mary J. Blige
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“You’re blessed if you have the strength to work.” -Mahalia Jackson
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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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“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.” -Ruby Dee
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“Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul with all his strength and with all his will.” -Max Muller
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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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“‘Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.” -Thomas Fuller
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“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.” -Paul Cezanne
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“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.” -Marcel Proust
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“It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.” -Giacomo Casanova
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“Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.” -Francis Bacon
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“The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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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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“It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” -Samuel Johnson
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“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” -Christopher Reeve
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“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.” -John Ruskin
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“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.” -Ho Chi Minh
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“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.” -Charles Kingsley
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“African women in general need to know that it’s OK for them to be the way they are – to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.” -Wangari Maathai
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“Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.” -Mike Murdock
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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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“And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.” -George Eliot
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“Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.” -Pythagoras
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“We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home’s potential for positive influence.” -Stephen Covey
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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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“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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