Strength Quotes - Page 40

• We must do that which we think we cannot.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Confidence, Thinking, Weakness

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• The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Victory, Innocence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.74, Hackett Publishing

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• Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty

  Swami Vivekananda

  Space, Anything And Everything, Infinite

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta”, p.10, Advaita Ashrama

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• Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Christian, Mean, Waiting

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• A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

  Dolly Parton

  Husband, Real, Important

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Art, Wind

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• The mountain violets break the rocks.

  Tennessee Williams

  Rocks, Mountain, Violet

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• An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

  Aesop

  Strong, Wind, Roots

  Aesop, Lloyd W. Daly (1961). “Aesop without morals: the famous fables, and a life of Aesop, newly translated and edited by Lloyd W. Daly. Illustrated by Grace Muscarella”

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• Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strong, Childhood

  Swami Vivekananda (1935). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Life Being Hard, Stronger

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• There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Dwelling, Weakness, Used

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.189, Island Press

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• The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

  David Starr Jordan

  Men, Stronger, Problem

  DAVID STARR JORDAN (1896). “THE CARE AND CULTURE OF MEN”

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• A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Strong, Men, Defeat

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• By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Patience, Time, Toil

  Jean de La Fontaine (1843). “Fables”, p.98

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  Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Motivational, Water Of Life

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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• I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

  Demi Lovato

  Beautiful, Being Strong, Thinking

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.40, Macmillan

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• I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long time. Nobody knows actors and their insecurities and strengths and everything more than somebody who's done it before.

  Paul Feig

  Long, Insecurity, Directors

  "Paul Feig And John Francis Daley Talk Filmmaking And Remember 'Freaks And Geeks'". Interview with John Francis Daley, www.forbes.com. January 5, 2015.

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  One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

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  To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

  George Mason

  Peace, Gun, Libertarian Party

  George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788.

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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  The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

  Ruby Dee

  Inspiring, Beauty, Black History

  "Rhodessa Jones: Ruby Dee a guiding light for social change" by Rhodessa Jones, www.sfgate.com. June 17, 2014.

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  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Veterans Day, Time

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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  Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Strong, Determination

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Self, Just Being, Talent

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