Strong Person Quotes

• A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

  T. D. Jakes

  Forgiveness, Strong, Thinking

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2016

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them.

  Jimmy Evans

  Strong, Personality, Serving Others

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• When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

  Catherine Ponder

  Relationship, Forgiveness, Emotional

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• The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

  Clement Greenberg

  Artist, Influence, Know How

  Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

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• A strong person will not be nervous and not express aggression towards his opponent... he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Strong, Fighting, Mma

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• I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

  Johnny Weir

  Strong, Thinking, Fierce

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• Fortunately I am a mentally strong person and believe I will learn from the experience and continue to improve as a player and person because of it. 
  (on breaking his leg)

  Michael Owen

  Strong, Believe, Player

  "Owen defuses 'midget' row", www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2005.

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• I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you're not strong. They don't look at you as a strong person, and it's weird 'cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.

  Melanie Martinez

  Strong, Emotional, Thinking

  "Interview: Melanie Martinez on her debut album, 'Cry Baby'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Strong, Personality, Conversation

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• We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Strong, Personality, Champion

  "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

  Wendy Davis

  Strong, Done, Levels

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• My mother was a very wise and strong person.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Wise, Mother, Strong

  "In tears, Jennifer Hudson testifies at trial of man accused of killing her relatives" by Ted Rowlands, Katherine Wojtecki, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Attitude, Character

  Speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, January 1939.

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• Taking the strong believing women as role models for both men and women, clearly indicates that the Quran acknowledges the woman's ability to be a strong person who can overcome any innate weakens in her.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Strong, Believe, Men

  "The Woman's Personality and Role in Life". english.bayynat.org.lb.

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• When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry." And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities."

  Eddie Izzard

  Strong, Sex, Sorry

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 13, 1999.

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• Because of my job, I learned to be confident a little earlier than most. People pick you apart when you're in the public eye - you're wearing the wrong shoes or you have ugly nail polish on or they're wondering if you got your boobs done - so you have to be a strong person right away.

  Heidi Klum

  Strong, Jobs, Eye

  Allure, April 2010.

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• Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Strong, New York, Circles

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• A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Strong, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.468

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• If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Strong, Goes On, Littles

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.

  Cameron Crowe

  Song, Art, Strong

  "Cameron Crowe Talks PEARL JAM TWENTY, WE BOUGHT A ZOO and a SAY ANYTHING SEQUEL?! Says Jónsi From Sigur Rós Is Doing ZOO Score". collider.com. July 31, 2011.

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• First Russians objective was - as I said earlier - to sow discord, discontent, disruption. And their next objective was - because of the very strong personal animus that Putin himself had for both Clintons, both President Clinton and Secretary Clinton - and he particularly held her responsible for what he felt was an attempted color revolution in 2011 to attempt to overturn him. So, he had very strong hatred - personal hatred - towards her, and that kind of led him to - if I'm opposed to her, who am I going to favor?

  James R. Clapper

  Strong, Hatred, President

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We do not have many women leaders in the world. But if you look at the current examples, most of those few female leaders that we have today lead their countries under the pressure of difficult political and economic circumstances. They all posses strong personalities and have real political influence on the domestic and international scene.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, Strong, Real

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

  Grace Jones

  Strong, Character, People

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