quotes about Strength
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There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
-- Aeschylus -
My family is my strength and my weakness.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
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My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
-- Albert EinsteinSource : "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.
-- Albert Wynn -
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When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.
-- Aldrich Ames -
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
-- Alex KarrasSource : "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
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If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.
-- Alexander CrummellSource : Alexander Crummell (1969). “Africa and America”, p.376, Рипол Классик
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
-- Alexis Carrel -
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
-- Ally Condie -
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As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.
-- Aminu Kano -
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."
-- Amy Tan -
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
-- Anais NinSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
-- Andrei SakharovSource : "Andrei Sakharov/ Biographical". www.nobelprize.org.
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I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
-- Ani DiFranco -
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.
-- Anna Letitia BarbauldSource : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.167
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All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
-- Anne BronteSource : Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.232, Diversion Books
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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 LindberghSource : Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1972). “Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think
-- Anne Rice -
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When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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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 -
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
-- Arthur GoldenSource : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.
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The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.
-- Aruna Roy -
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During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
-- Asger Jorn -
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
-- August Wilson -
Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
-- August Wilson -
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
-- Ayn Rand -
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A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
-- Barbara DemingSource : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
-- Barbra Streisand -
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
-- Bear Bryant -
My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.
-- Benjamin BrattSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 BrittenSource : Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
-- Benjamin Franklin -
In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.
-- Betty Eadie -
It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.
-- Betty FriedanSource : BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”
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Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.
-- Betty SmithSource : BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
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There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
-- Beverly SillsSource : Time, Volume 120, 1982.
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In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we're united and enjoy life - Without unity we are victims. Stay united.
-- Bill Bailey -
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
-- Bill Moyers -
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Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
-- Billy Graham -
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
-- Blaise Pascal -
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Rather the pain of discipline than the pain of regret.
-- Bob Andrews -
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Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.
-- Bob Riley -
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
-- Booker T. WashingtonSource : Booker T. Washington (1904*). “Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904”
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We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
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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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
-- Bruce Jenner -
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
-- Bruce Lee -
I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.
-- Bruce Lee -
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Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
-- Bruce Lee -
Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.
-- Bruce Lee -
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".
-- Byron Katie -
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
-- Calvin CoolidgeSource : Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.
-- Carl Hoppe -
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
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I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
-- Carrie Nation -
You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
-- Cesar ChavezSource : Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin
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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 -
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
-- Charles Dickens -
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The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.
-- Charles Handy -
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
-- Charles Lamb -
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 -
I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.
-- Charlie Sheen -
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Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.
-- Chief JosephSource : Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
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When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.
-- Chilon of Sparta -
Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.
-- Chris Bradford -
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
-- Christopher ReeveSource : "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.
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Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.
-- Clare of Assisi -
To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
-- Clementine Paddleford -
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.
-- Clifford GeertzSource : Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.111, Hachette UK
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
-- Coco Chanel -
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
-- Confucius -
I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.
-- Conrad Veidt -
Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."
-- Coventry PatmoreSource : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.19, Lulu.com
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It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.
-- Craig Kielburger -
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 -
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
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There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
-- Dalai Lama -
The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.
-- David Starr JordanSource : DAVID STARR JORDAN (1896). “THE CARE AND CULTURE OF MEN”
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Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.
-- Delbert L. Stapley -
I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.
-- Demi LovatoSource : Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.40, Macmillan
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