Strength Quotes - Page 7

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  The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Being Strong

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Women

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• Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.

  P. C. Cast

  Eye, Giving, Doubt

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• It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, Badass, Ambition

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

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• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strong, Don't Give Up, Libertarian

  "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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• Rather the pain of discipline than the pain of regret.

  Bob Andrews

  Positive, Pain, Regret

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• A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

  Marge Piercy

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Done

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.76, Knopf

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• Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Weakness, Cooperation

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• The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Character, Shows

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• We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Keys

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• Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

  Paul Brunton

  Being Alone, Men, Solitude

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• Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

  Sun Tzu

  Life, Wisdom, Art

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• Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Women, Weakness, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Time

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• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

  Claude Monet

  Hard Work, Discouragement, Periods

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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  In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

  Robert E. Lee

  Bible, Failure, Light

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• I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Workout, Bodybuilding

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.290, Villard

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• There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Women

  Time, Volume 120, 1982.

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• I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Hope, Country

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

  Confucius

  Family, Peace, Integrity

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• Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.71, Ravenio Books

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• Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Strong

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• hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

  Ralph Bunche

  Inspirational, Heart, Noble

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• We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Kids, Differences

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