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Strength Quotes
"If someone is capable of Hurting you, you must be Capable of not getting hurt."
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"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
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"In life,You can either play the hand you've been dealt or decide to fold. Just remember that you are not alone in this journey of life. People experience hardships all the time. You learn from those difficult moments and become stronger."
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"But perhaps you could call her perilous because she's so strong in herself. You , you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock, or drown yourself, like a Hobbit in a river, but neither rock nor river would be to blame."
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"What other people believe shouldn't (be allowed to) hurt me."
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"Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond."
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"That he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety."
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"A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf."
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"You'll do well, Percy. Just remember your strengths and beware your weaknesses."
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"They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead."
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"What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man."
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
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"In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike."
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"You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim."
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"Prim, let go," I say harshly, because this is upsetting me and I don't want to cry. When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction."
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"On Andrew Jackson: "His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool."
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"Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you'd live unconquered,Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred,And every child a hero."
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"Women are never so strong as after their defeat."
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"If there are difficulties on your way, be thankful for them because they will test and refine you as fire does to gold and if you will overcome, you will come out a winner, wizard and overcomer."
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"Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime."
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"Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!"
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"The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest."
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"It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self."
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"She's fire. But she won't burn you... she knows all too well, how it feel to live with ashes."
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"In the midst of your struggles, you WILL find a reason to keep going. Don't give up!"
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"A man can be knocked down a thousand times and can still get back up, but when he puts himself down he has defeated himself more than a million others could have done."
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"Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!"
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"Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!"
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"When darkness comes, stars shine. When storms come, plants flourish. When adversity comes, champions triumph."
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"Listen to me ... and I want you to remember this. Your legs are part of you, but not all of you or what you are. So wherever we go after tonight, I need you to know that you are no less for the injury. Even if you are in a chair, you still stand as tall as you ever did. Height is just a vertical number - it doesn't mean shit when it comes to your character or the kind of life you live."
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