Being Strong Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  Love, Motivational, Strength

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• I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong Women, Believe, Heart

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.314, Penguin

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• Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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• Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

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• I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

  Alice Morse Earle

  Inspirational, Positive, Good Morning

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  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.

  Les Brown

  Fall, Land, Get Up

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• Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticises you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

  Leah LaBelle

  Motivational, Positive, Stay Strong

  "Jack Wilshere out for three months as Arsène Wenger's injury list grows" by David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2014.

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• Hardships make or break people.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Perseverance, Courage, Adversity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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• Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Ambition, World, Stand Alone

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• Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

  Thomas Merton

  Strength, Confidence, Stay Strong

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.143, Image

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• It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

  Wendell Willkie

  Strength, Peace, War

  Speech accepting nomination as Republican candidate for president in Elwood, Indiana (August 17, 1940); as quoted in "This Is Wendell Willkie" by Wendell Willkie, (p. 273 - 274), 1940.

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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• The worst thing about being strong is no one recognizes the beauty in strength or the love behind it.

  Catherine Fraser

  Love Is, Worst, Behinds

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• A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hope, Expectations, Mind

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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

  Strength, Communication, Men

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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• I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Prayer, Light

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Perseverance, Men

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• Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Veterans Day, Stay Strong, Giving Up

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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• All that is gold does not glitter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Travel, Fantasy Novels, Roots

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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