Strength Quotes - Page 28

• God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.

  Jan L. Richardson

  Soul, May, Quiet

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• We are what we think about.  When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts.  The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Thinking, Self, Giving

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• I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Weak, Stores

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• A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Hope, Wisdom

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.38, BookRix

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• Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

  Marquis de Sade

  Change, Wisdom, Time

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Son, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.361

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• In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Strong, Silly

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Penguin

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• A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, Aristocracy, Purpose

  Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN Ultimate Collection: 370+ Titles in One Volume (Illustrated): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, A Horse’s Tale, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.1507, e-artnow

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• States strong enough to do good are but few.
  Their number would seem limited to three.

  Robert Frost

  Strong, Numbers, Three

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nuclear, Weapons, Judgment

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• I will be steel!
  I will build a steel bridge over my need!
  I will build a bomb shelter over my heart!
  But my future is a secret.
  It is as shy as a mole.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Bridges, Secret

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Time, Character, Men

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Crazy, Roots, Sick

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where
  I bear a little more than I can bear.

  Elinor Wylie

  Prayer, Littles, Bears

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.100, Kent State University Press

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• One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.

  Stefan Zweig

  Character, Human Nature, Moments

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• I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Don't Give Up, Shining

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• The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Being Strong, Communication, Men

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

  Benjamin Britten

  Music, Beauty, Beautiful

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• If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Men, Power

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• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Power, Men

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• Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

  Cesar Chavez

  Change, Being Strong, Reality

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Inspirational, Courage, War

  Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war”, p.35, Aegitas

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