Being Strong Quotes - Page 6

• Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Strength, Art, Powerful

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

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• When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Learning

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Strong, Grateful, Heart

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• Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.

  Keiko Fukuda

  Beautiful, Strong, Kind

  Keiko Fukuda (1973). “Born for the Mat: A Kodokan Kata Textbook for Women”

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• We have to be much tougher. We have to be much stronger than we've been.

  Donald Trump

  Stronger

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Running, Courage

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.

  Zig Ziglar

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Energy

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 13, 2014

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• Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Bullying, Being Bullied, Backbone

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• Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong Women

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Strong, Army, People

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• Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fall, Humility, Greatness

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• If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Ghetto, Hands, Black People

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.110, Book Tree

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• Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Persistence, Race

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 29, 2014

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• Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.189, Island Press

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Michael Jordan, Walter Iooss, Mark Vancil (1995). “I'm back!: more rare air”, Harpercollins

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• Survival is your strength not your shame.

  T. S. Eliot

  Survival, Shame

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• When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

  Saint Augustine

  Weakness

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• 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Perseverance, Motivation

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.44, Rowman & Littlefield

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• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  Victor Hugo

  Motivational, Success, Sports

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Encouragement, Perseverance

  "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.

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• If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Storms make trees take deeper roots.

  Dolly Parton

  Life, Strength, Depression

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2009

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• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs". Book by Martin E. Ford, 1992.

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