Strength Quotes - Page 23

• A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.

  James Madison

  Peace, Ambition, People

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• How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Choices, Situation

  Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.34, Harmony

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• Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out

  Katherine Dunham

  Emotional, Blow, Meditation Practice

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• At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Thinking, Time To Think, Helplessness

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• The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Differences, Matter, Posture

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• There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  World, Indifference, Tranquility

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.870

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• Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Long, Mind, Quality

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strong, Men, Causes

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Literary and political addresses”

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• A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life Is, Will Power, Discharge

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• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

  Albert Schweitzer

  People, Stronger, Way

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Imagination, Add, Spirit

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.36

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• No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Perseverance, Years, Rocks

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.649, Delphi Classics

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• To make a muscle grow, you must force it to go beyond its capabilities. The most potent way to apply that force is to train to failure. Training to failure means...the muscles are forced to grow stronger and bigger

  Nasser El Sonbaty

  Mean, Training, Stronger

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• You're never beaten until you admit it

  George S. Patton

  Encouragement, Military, Weight Loss

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• Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Victory, Weakness, Cowardice

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• When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Life, Sad, Dance

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Stay Strong

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• I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

  Katherine Dunham

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Weakness

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.27, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Being Strong, Athlete, Exercise

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.301

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• There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can't. Yet, in your belief you'll find the strength, you'll find the ability, to do it anyway.

  Ralph Marston

  Being Strong, Running, Believe

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• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

  William C. Bryant

  Children, Adversity, Greatness

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• There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

  Aaron Hill

  Hero, Coward, Trials

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15

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• It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

  May Sarton

  Sometimes, Source, Fragile Things

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

  Charles Darwin

  Change, Struggle, Winning

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