Having Strength Quotes

• 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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  You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

  Dr. Seuss

  Strength, Choices, Three

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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

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• Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Positive, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 12, 2011

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• 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

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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  If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

  David Viscott

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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  Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

  Anna Freud

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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  Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

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• Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Strength, Moving On, Encouraging

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• If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Perseverance, Determination, Kings

  "When King made history at UChicago" by Susie Allen and Michael Drapa, www.uchicago.edu. January 9, 2012.

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• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Positive, Success

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• Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Strength, Confidence, Perseverance

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• 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

  Strength, Love You, Heart

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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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.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Real, Inspiration, Grandmother

  2006 Oscar Award Acceptance Address for Best Actress, delivered 5 March 2006

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• To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Climbing, Years

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies in another.

  Harriet Hosmer

  Inspirational, Lying, Honor

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• Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

  Roger Wicker

  Taken, Home, America

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