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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“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” -Betty Friedan
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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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“Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.” -Abdul Kalam
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“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America’s communities, large and small.” -Mitt Romney
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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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“I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.” -Michelle Obama
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.” -Aldous Huxley
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“What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.” -Rick Warren
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“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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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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“If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.” -Francis Quarles
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“The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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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“People do not lack strength they lack will.” -Victor Hugo
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“My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.” -Peter Drucker
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“All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.” -Theodore Bikel
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“May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.” -Swami Vivekananda
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“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.” -Thomas Paine
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“A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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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“My family is my strength and my weakness.” -Aishwarya Rai
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“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.” -Thomas a Kempis
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“Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” -Mattie Stepanek
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“Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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“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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“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.” -Lao Tzu
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“We acquire the strength we have overcome.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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“When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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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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“Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.” -William Shakespeare
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“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.” -Oscar Wilde
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“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” -Confucius
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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” -George Orwell
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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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“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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“Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” -Helen Keller
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“One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.” -Albert Einstein
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“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” -Tecumseh
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“Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.” -Blanka Vlasic
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“What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you’re never discouraged.” -Salma Hayek
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“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” -Mother Teresa
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“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” -Michael Jordan
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“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” -Thomas Jefferson
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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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“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.” -William Wordsworth
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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 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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“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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“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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“When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.” -LL Cool J
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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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“Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.” -Eric Hoffer
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“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” -Charles Spurgeon
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“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.” -Charles Dickens
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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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“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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“The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren’t able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It’s called being human.” -Elizabeth Edwards
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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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“I think I was born strong-willed. That’s not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.” -Joan Jett
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“Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.” -Brian Tracy
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“Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.” -George Henry Lewes
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“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.” -Leo Rosten
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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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“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” -Og Mandino
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“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” -Napoleon Hill
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“Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?” -Nelson Mandela
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“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” -Plato
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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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“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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“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.” -Henry Rollins
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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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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” -Saint Francis de Sales
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Winston Churchill
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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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“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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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.” -Khalil Gibran
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“A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.” -Wayne Dyer
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“We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.” -Charles Stanley
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“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
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