Stronger Quotes - Page 25

• Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

  Gautama Buddha

  Endurance, Praying, Burden

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• The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sacrifice, Greatness, Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Prayer, People

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• His body is changing. He will strip down and start getting even bigger and stronger over the next few seasons and, seriously, how scary is that? He will be unstoppable. He has just got to realise how good he is and what he can do in the game if he puts his mind to it.

  Wendell Sailor

  Rugby League, Games, Scary

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• My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• ...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

  Michael Cadnum

  Smile, Mean, People

  Michael Cadnum (2010). “Flash”, p.3, Macmillan

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• My brother is my best friend and nothing is stronger than family.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Brother, Bodybuilding

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• Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who asked for our trust betray or abandon us. Strategies that worked suddenly don't. Groundlessness is a frightening place, at least at first, but as the old culture turns to mush, we would feel stronger if we stopped searching for ground, if we sought only to locate ourselves in the present and do our work from here.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Ideas, People, Soul

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• Art is stronger than Nature

  Titian

  Art, Art Is

  Norbert Wolf, Titian (2006). “I, Titian”, Prestel Publishing

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• That which does not kill you will ultimately make you stronger.

  Martin Niemoller

  Doe, Catchy, Makes You Stronger

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• There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religious, Passion, Ignorance

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.

  Christine McVie

  Growing Up, Healing, Feelings

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• So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

  Brit Marling

  Meaningful, Writing, Roles

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• The most important lesson that were supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)

  Brian Welch

  Jesus, Zero, Important

  Brian Welch (2010). “Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Truth, Discovery, Self

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• A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

  John Irving

  Motivation, Injustice, Philanthropy

  John Irving (2012). “A Son Of The Circus”, p.103, Random House

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• There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

  Kirsty Coventry

  Motivational, Titles, Swimmer

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• Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than CO₂ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about 26 times as potent as CO₂, the combined greenhouse effect of our livestock worldwide is greater than the sum total of all the cars, trains, busses, trucks, ships, airplanes and jets.

  Thom Hartmann

  Airplane, Car, Environmental

  "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink". Book by Thom Hartmann, p.22, July 23, 2009.

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• My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Guilt, Defeat

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes”, p.308

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• They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Blow, Glowing

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.11, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows it or not.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Health, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

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• Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fighting, Voting, Tests

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.312, Knopf

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• There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Eye, Men, Angry Man

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• The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

  Irving Kaufman

  Doe, Trials, Lawyer

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• Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he's gonna be back bigger and stronger.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Guy, Survivor

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