Strength Quotes - Page 30

• The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  Victor Hugo

  Time, Powerful, Ideas

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• One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Hope, Peace

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.331

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• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  Bruce Jenner

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Business

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• I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

  Joan Jett

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

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• The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

  Franz Kafka

  Prayer, Men, Fellow Man

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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  Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

  Garrison Keillor

  Success, Encouraging, Determination

  "Lake Wobegon Days". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1985.

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Love, Death, Silence

  "On Death and Dying". Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969.

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• The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Struggle, Power

  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 2 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hope, Peace, Freedom

  Speech in House of Representatives, 12 Jan. 1848

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• The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Criticism, Weakness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.110, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.

  Rocky Marciano

  Motivational, Fighting, Train Hard

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• The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Depression, Pain, Philosophical

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• True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Lying, Dedication

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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• What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

  Barbra Streisand

  Crazy, Two, People

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• To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

  Barbra Streisand

  Believe, Mean, Views

  Playboy interview, 1977.

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• It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Gold, Weakness

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics

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• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

  Tecumseh

  Good Morning, Thanksgiving, Uplifting

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• In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

  Marlo Thomas

  Journey, Feelings, Way

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• The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, Powerful, Military

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• I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Motivational, Smile

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• I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

  Denzel Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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