Strength Quotes - Page 20

• The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Exercise, Development And Growth, Personal Growth

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.396

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• Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.

  Clare of Assisi

  Iron, Body, Stones

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• A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cobwebs, Strain, Cables

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Being Strong, Fantasy Novels, Roots

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

  George Muller

  Christian, Opportunity, Desire

  George Muller (2005). “Release The Power Of Prayer”, p.26, Whitaker House

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• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Inspiring, Stay Strong

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• Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Weapons, Firsts, Needs

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• Let each man exercise the art he knows.

  Aristophanes

  Art, Life Changing, Exercise

  Aristophanes (1960). “Aristophanes”

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• And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Peace, Men

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J. H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

  LL Cool J

  Stay Strong, Adversity, Steps

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• You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

  Ken Kesey

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Funny Things

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.123, Hamilton Books

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• Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

  George S. Patton

  Life, Courage, Bad Day

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• I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

  Harriet Tubman

  Fighting, Long, Liberty

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• Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Strong

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• It's so easy to laugh,
  It's so easy to hate,
  It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

  Steven Morrissey

  Laughter, Kindness, Hate

  "Song: 'I Know It's Over'". 1986.

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• The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Light, Bravery

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• I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Emotional, Use, Want

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.85, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

  Jewel

  Regret, Love Life, Voice

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• For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

  Matthew Arnold

  Kings, Soul, Guilty

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.366, Delphi Classics

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• Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

  Anais Nin

  Sisterhood, Men, Needs

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• None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Strong, Passion, Greatness

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• Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

  Aeschylus

  Fighting, Winning

  Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”

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• Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Running, Business, Believe

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1992). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione”

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