Stronger Quotes - Page 15

• You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

  John Legend

  Motivational, Work Out, Way

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• All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral memory. The swells rose sluggishly and fell away, casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of waves on the pilings. It was a fifteen-foot drop to the dim water. The nearest land ahead of me was Hawaii.

  Ross Macdonald

  Memories, Moving, Sea

  Ross Macdonald (2012). “The Drowning Pool”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

  Thomas More

  Kindness, Heart, Men

  Thomas More (2009). “Utopia”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Exercise, Imagination

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.

  Lou Holtz

  Winning, Games, Agents

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• Love is meant for husbands, but my love for Hitler is stronger, I would give my life for it.

  Magda Goebbels

  Husband, Love Is, Giving

  "Hitler's women" by Guido Knopp, 2001.

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• He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games.

  Albert Speer

  Games, People, Annoyed

  Albert Speer (1997). “Inside the Third Reich”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?

  Ken Kesey

  Wise, Strong, Law

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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• The fact that global savers accommodate U.S. consumers by keeping U.S. interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and the dollar stronger than it otherwise would be is simply a manifestation of America's comparative advantage at supplying wealth storage facilities.

  John H. Makin

  America, Balance, Dollars

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• There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Party, Two

  Ulysses S. Grant, John Y. Simon (1969). “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: April to September, 1861”, p.7, SIU Press

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• In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

  Peter L. Berger

  Strong, Interesting, Suffering

  Peter L. Berger (1969). “The sacred canopy: elements of a sociological theory of religion”

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• Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Patience, Blow, Tyrants

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1876). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.626

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• It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall and breakdown. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Determination, Feet, Overcoming

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Environment is stronger than will.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspirational, Yoga, Environmental

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• The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

  John Lyly

  Broken, Together, Bones

  Euphues

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• And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Believe, People, Doubt

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• When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice. If you are stronger, you have to help the weaker boy or girl both in play and in the work.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Girl, Boys, Self

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• I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.

  Tim Scott

  Party, Thinking, Looks

  "GOP Rising Star Tim Scott on 'Hannity'". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost... I will get stronger. I will return.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Grateful, Hard Work, Long

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• It is not just that we exist and God has always existed, it is also that God necessarily exists in an infinitely better, stronger, more excellent way. The difference between God's being and ours is more than the difference between the sun and a candle, more than the difference between the ocean and a raindrop... God's being is qualitatively different.

  Wayne Grudem

  Ocean, Differences, Raindrops

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.148, Harper Collins

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• As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.

  Charles Duhigg

  People, Willpower, Management

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• To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Golf, Play

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• Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Character, Compassion

  "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 1994.

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• In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the people who were stronger mentally. It takes a certain amount of imagination to make a life on the other side of the world, the same imagination it takes to climb the tallest mountain.

  Maurice Wilkins

  War, Europe, Imagination

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