Being Strong Quotes - Page 8

• In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

  Bill Courtney

  Community, Duty, Strong

  Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.45, Weinstein Publishing

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• When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Strength, Weakness

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.27, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

  Robert W. Service

  Law, Survival, Yukon

  "The Law of the Yukon" l. 71 (1907)

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• In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Exercise, Lazy, Mind

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.263

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• There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can't. Yet, in your belief you'll find the strength, you'll find the ability, to do it anyway.

  Ralph Marston

  Strength, Running, Believe

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• He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational Life, Needs, Littles

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• The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

  Khalil Gibran

  Song, Sweet, Heart

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• Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

  John Dryden

  Strength, Strong, Grace

  John Dryden (1767). “THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND”, p.135

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• Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strength, Athlete, Exercise

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.301

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• It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.

  Confucius

  Struggle, Character, Ideas

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• God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.

  Edward Bouverie Pusey

  Strong, Doe, Trials

  Edward Bouverie Pusey (1853). “Parochial sermons”, p.182

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• It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strength, Stay Strong, Courage

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Strength, Integrity, Power

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• Laughing is the best calorie burner.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Strong Women, Believe, Kissing

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Forgiveness, Stay Strong

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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• It is the business of little minds to shrink.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strength, Perseverance, Humorous

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Leadership, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.33

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• Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Character, Depth, Moral

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• If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

  Erik Erikson

  Life, Responsibility, Way

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• O, do not pray for easy lives.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Stay Strong, Prayer

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Hope, Spiritual, Character

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• Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Strength, Lying, Struggle

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• The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

  Dan Simmons

  Humanity, Wish, Violence

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Carrion Comfort”, p.267, Macmillan

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• It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Strength, Success, Careers

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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