Strong Man Quotes

• A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

  Agatha Christie

  Strong, Men, Weak Man

  "The Under Dog: And Other Stories".

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• A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Strong, Men, Realist

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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, Strength, Strong

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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  Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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• A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.

  Andre Maurois

  Strong, Women, Weakness

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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  A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Being Strong, Wisdom, Stay Strong

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Leadership”, p.18, David C Cook

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• A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Strong Women, Attitude, Weak Man

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2013

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

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strength, Strong, Men

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

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• Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.

  Joseph Delaney

  Girl, Strong, Men

  Joseph Delaney (2011). “The Last Apprentice: Attack of the Fiend”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Being Strong, Men, Giving

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• The strong man is strongest when alone.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Strong, Men, Solitude

  Friedrich Schiller (1839). “William Tell: An Historical Play”, p.27

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Strength, Strong, Men

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• It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Strong, Fear, Men

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.

  S. D Gordon

  Strong, Father, Men

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• Kill me if you will, I am not afraid to die; and I have endured so much oppression that I am weary of life. But I am a strong man, and I could cast both of you down, if I would. If you have any legal process to serve, present it, for I am at all times subject to law and shall not offer resistance.

  Sam Smith

  Strong, Men, Law

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• To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong men

  Fredrick Hatfield

  Song, Strong, Men

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• These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.

  Powell Clayton

  Strength, Strong, Men

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• I think it takes a truly strong man to cherish a woman.

  Rebecca St. James

  Strong, Men, Thinking

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• Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strong, Men, Weak Man

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Strong, Men, Issues

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• It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.

  Ray Johnson

  Strong, Children, Real Men

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