Strongest Quotes - Page 24

• The strongest people in the world are the ones who think they're weak.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Thinking, People, World

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• You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Strong, Ocean

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Sweet, Peace

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.8

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... "Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Art, Blow

  "The Joy Luck Club". Book by Amy Tan, 1989.

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• One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.

  Wendell Berry

  House, Conventions, Mailboxes

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.40, Counterpoint Press

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• Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Hurt, Pain, Hate

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2009). “The Den of Shadows Quartet”, p.66, Delacorte Press

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• ...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Soul, Generations

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

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• A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Summer, Dad, Block

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• The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Hurt, People, Finding Yourself

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• The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Confidence, Long, People

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree

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• People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

  Tiger Woods

  People, Work Ethic, Ethics

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• The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Thinking, Remember

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

  Jesse Jackson

  Men, Two, Jail

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• People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

  Patricia Hewitt

  People, Perfect, Challenges

  "Reviving the love Labour's lost" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

  Chuck Hagel

  Military, America, Community

  Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense, February, 2013.

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• We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Years, World, Economic

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• There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Spiritual, Thinking, Remembers Everything

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.193, Penguin

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• Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Love, Hurt, Pain

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.60, Chosen Books

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• I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

  Cesar Pelli

  Strong, Moving, Past

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• The strongest leaders do not command, they empower

  Ralph Marston

  Empowering, Leader, Command

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• When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest.

  Edward Reynolds

  Prayer, Mercy

  Edward Reynolds (1838). “Israel's prayer in time of trouble: with God's gracious answer; an explication of the fourteenth chapter of Hosea, in seven sermons, preached upon days of solemn humiliation”, p.19

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• . . . And always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Sweet, Blessed

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

  Stephen Spender

  Memories, Creativity, Self

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• To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Mean, Photographer

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Freedom, Opportunity

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