Strength Quotes - Page 6

• Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

  Laozi

  Conquer, Force, Conquering Others

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Mma, Water

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Self

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Being Strong, Encouragement, Perseverance

  "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.

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• Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Thorough Knowledge, Squash

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Adversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Pain

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• A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

  Tecumseh

  Being Strong, Break, Twigs

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• Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Waiting, Solitude, Sparks

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• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Business

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• Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Happiness, Running

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 21, 2012

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• Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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• It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

  Emilie Autumn

  Friendship, Loyalty, Fighting

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• When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.

  Thomas Merton

  Strong, Happens, Greater

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strong, Men, Opportunity

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspiring, Courage, Fashion

  "Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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  The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Workout

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• Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Diversity, Understanding, Brotherhood

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• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Education, Wisdom, Teaching

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.13, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• A quiet conscience makes one strong!

  Anne Frank

  Strong, Peace, Integrity

  Anne Frank (1959). “Works”

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• Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Patience, Support, Literature

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• Courage conquers all things:
  it even gives strength to the body.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Courage, Giving

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• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

  August Wilson

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Courage

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• My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Heart, Purity

  "Sir Galahad" l. 3 (1842)

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• The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

  Ken Doherty

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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