Strength Quotes - Page 39

• Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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• The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

  Rebecca West

  Success, Encouraging, Goodbye

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• You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!

  Queen Latifah

  Self Respect, Looks, Ems

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• I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Music, Time, Forever

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I was only given this life because I'm strong enough to live it.

  Robert Pattinson

  Being Strong, Courage, Enough

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• You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Courage, Wall, Hate

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• Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Song, Failure, Heart

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.748, Wordsworth Editions

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• A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Grief, Recovery

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.21, Lulu.com

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  Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

  Chief Joseph

  Life, Teacher, Freedom

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Success, Encouraging

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• Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

  Sylvester Stallone

  Stay Strong, Moving Forward, Mean

  "Rocky Balboa". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Spiritual, Weakness

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2004). “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Faith”, p.85, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.

  Kofi Awoonor

  Sweet, Talent, Share

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• Focus on your strengths.

  Brian Tracy

  Focus

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• Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

  Peter Drucker

  Thinking, People, Persons

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.11, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, People, Simplicity

  "Kristen Stewart on Robert Pattinson Relationship: 'Keep Them Guessing'" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 07, 2012.

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• I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.

  Charlie Sheen

  Emotional, Years, Track

  "Angus T. Jones On Verge Of Breakdown? ‘Two And A Half Men’ Star A ‘Shadow Of Himself’" by Lauren Duca, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'

  Jessica Biel

  Cute, Girl, Mom

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• When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Moving, Simplicity, Self Reliance

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• You find your strengths and play them up.

  Kate Upton

  Play, Simplicity, Self Reliance

  "Kate Upton Wants To Move From Cheesecake Modeling To High-fashion Catwalks" by Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 11, 2012.

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• The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Army, Survival, Democracy

  Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.1, Penguin

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• We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Confidence, Perseverance, Empowering

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

  Isabel Allende

  War, People, Revolution

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