Strength Quotes - Page 32

• Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

  Joss Whedon

  Inspirational, Vampire, Pivotal Moments

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• Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Giving Up, Get Well Soon

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Being Yourself

  Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”

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• If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Strong

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Strong, Love Is, Emotional

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.204, Beacon Press

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• You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Remember You, Remembers You, Failing

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

  Brian Tracy

  Stars, Inspiration, Challenges

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2015

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• Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

  August Wilson

  Pain, Angel, Illumination

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• If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Communication, Helping

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your 'weaknesses' and watch them morph into your greatest strengths.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Letting Go, Weakness, Watches

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 21, 2009

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• Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

  Homer

  Hope, Expectations, Despair

  Homer (1806). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.78

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• Once more, never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

  David Brainerd

  Christian, Thinking, Grace

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.125

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• The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strong, Weak, Natural

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.150

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• The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hands, Aggressors

  Speech at an English Speaking Union Dinner, July 03, 1951.

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• It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strong, Lying, Tests

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.111

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• Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

  T. S. Eliot

  Cake, Ice, Tea

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Views, Light, Talent

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• Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.432

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• Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.

  A. E. Housman

  Luck, Towers, Hours

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.114, Delphi Classics

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• Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Judging, Individuality

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

  Rumi

  Lying, Pride, Evil

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• The more you care, the stronger you can be.

  Jim Rohn

  Love, Motivational, Being Strong

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 27, 2017

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• I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong.

  Ivana Trump

  Running, Strong, Business

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• The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Strong, Diversity, Expansion

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• Strong lives are those that are marked by a sense of purpose, connectedness, resilience, and fulfillment.

  Jenifer Fox

  Strong, Resilience, Purpose

  Jenifer Fox (2008). “Your Child's Strengths: A Guide for Parents and Teachers”, p.28, Penguin

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