Strength Quotes - Page 22

• Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Errors, Giving

  Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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• It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.

  Richard Ingrams

  Art, Anger, People

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• Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action.... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and strength in opposition one against the other. We can readily integrate the two, search for more and better ways to use affiliation to enhance strength--and strength to enhance affiliation.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Two, Together, Groups

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.96, Beacon Press

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• The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.

  Philippe Aries

  Music, Hero, Typical

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Solitude, Solitary, Doom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.347, Рипол Классик

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• My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

  Mason Cooley

  Weakness, Charitable, Contemptuous

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• We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hurt, Defeat, Conscious

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• Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

  Mason Cooley

  Teacher, Weakness, Obstacles

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• Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Character, Strength Of Character, Eccentricity

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• So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Money, Women, Heart

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• We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strong, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Determination, Character

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• We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Use, Impossible, Imagine

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• We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Reason, Enough

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• Strength is the outcome of need.

  H. G. Wells

  Needs, Outcomes, Need Strength

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.21, Sparklesoup LLC

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• No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Hurt, Strong, Character

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• I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Guy, Bully

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• May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.

  Pope Francis

  Peace, Children, Inspiration

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• Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ... I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Pain, Heart

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• There may be a point in your life in which you are drowning so fast and fighting it so furiously that you don't have the strength left to call out for help. At that point don't expect one of your friends to jump into the water, if you've spent most of your life instructing them to mind their own business.

  Perry Brass

  Life, Fighting, Water

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• I love French films, and European films. They're not any bigger, but there's just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and strength to them. I'd always, given the option, go and see a French drama. Obviously, we probably get the better ones. But they're just sophisticated on many levels, and grown up, and quite profound - and we don't make films like that.

  Jim Broadbent

  Love, Confidence, Drama

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Fighting

  "The Art of War". Chapter III: Strategic Attack. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Peace, War

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• Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Self

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  Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

  James Madison

  Peace, Army, Politics

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