Strength Quotes - Page 36

• We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.183, Humanix Books

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• Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Peace, Strong

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

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• No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Sloth, Wicked

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• Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Bullying

  "You Learn by Living".

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• The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Strong, Freedom

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Dedication, Wish

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899

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• I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

  Susan Sarandon

  Strong, Thinking, Two

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

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• When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Compassion, Government

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

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• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Stress, Crazy

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• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

  Haile Selassie

  Differences, Goal, Unity

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• I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Challenges, Weight, Feels

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• There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

  Han Suyin

  Inspirational, Witty, Power

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• The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Wall

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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  If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Funny, Life

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

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• Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.

  Jay-Z

  Strong, Fall, Character

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• Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

  Laozi

  Army, Winning, Broken

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

  Laozi

  Loss, Way, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

  Hermann Hesse

  Strong, Demand, Enough

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• If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

  Epictetus

  Character, Might, Matter

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

  Laozi

  Truth, Heart, Practice

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• Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Sea, Soul

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• ...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

  Mark Helprin

  Nature, Real, Blue

  Mark Helprin (2007). “Memoir from Antproof Case”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Seeing the small is called Clarity.
  Keeping flexible is called Strength.
  Using the shining Radiance,
  You enter the Light,
  Where no harm can come to you.
  This is called Enlightenment.

  Laozi

  Light, Shining, Radiance

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• As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

  Clifford Geertz

  Religious, Pain, Loss

  Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse, and he fell attempting to dismount. Now the horse kicked him in the head, and I feared for his safety, but Ecthgow laughed and kicked the horse back.

  Michael Crichton

  Horse, Warrior, Safety

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Eaters of the Dead”, p.56, Vintage

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