Real Strength Quotes

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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• Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words—like 'aggression' and even 'violence'. Real strength is neither male nor female; but it is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that a human being can possess.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Real, Believe

  Fred Rogers (2003). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Real, Fields, Curious

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• Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

  Guy Finley

  Strong, Real, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Sep 06, 2013

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• Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

  Timothy Keller

  Real, Weakness, Resurrection

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• No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

  Pat Summitt

  Strong, Real, Weakness

  Pat Head Summitt, Sally Jenkins (2013). “Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective”, p.20, Crown Archetype

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• For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Country, Real

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.773, Best Books on

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• It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Real, Easy, Prohibition

  Jewish Chronicle (p. 22), October 11, 2013.

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• Real strength entails being considerate and supportive of people's feelings.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Real, People, Feelings

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Strength, Real, Agony

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.40

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• When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only substitute for accuracy in the aim is in the multitude of the shafts.

  John Quincy Adams

  Real, Weakness, Obscurity

  John Quincy Adams (1810). “Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University”, p.99

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• Your real strength within isn't the strength that you experience in your self. Your real strength within is in what you are as a being, deeper than what your self is. Your real strength is within your weakest weakness.

  John de Ruiter

  Real, Self, Weakness

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• Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it can emulate the requirements of other moral theories when it is the case that acting on those theories would improve the world.

  Dale Jamieson

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Struggle, Size

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a difference and they are doing it out of passion.

  Paul Watson

  Real, Passion, Differences

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• I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

  Harry S. Truman

  Spiritual, Real, Lying

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1962). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

  Pericles

  Real, Cities, Mind

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• Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

  Erik Erikson

  Encouragement, Children, Real

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If we have one real strength, it's commitment and determination

  Nigel Worthington

  Determination, Real, Commitment

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• I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

  Isabel Allende

  Real, Optimistic, Thinking

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

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• The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

  James Russell Lowell

  Real, Vehemence, Greater

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• It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

  Hudson Taylor

  Real, Dwelling, Joy

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• Real strength has to do with helping others.

  Fred Rogers

  Real, Helping Others, Helping

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.22, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.

  Ally Carter

  Real, Hitting, Want

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• We don't have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you'd find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.

  Eric Schmidt

  Real, Thinking, Technology

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