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Strength Quotes


"My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders."


"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."


"You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in."


"Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible."


"As water downs ships but upholds leaves, and as fires burn cities but refines gold, so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatnessand the proud to ruin."


"Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength."


"To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence."


"I don't think anyone could really know her, just as the peak of her struggle blooms, she again appearered to have held it all together when the whole world; would have thought, she'd fall Apart."


"There will be people who admire your strength and courage. But, there will also be those willing to knock everything you say and do. They think it goes unnoticed, but you have excellent peripheral vision. The trick is to never let them get the best of you. Don't become vulnerable to their deceptive nature. You were born to succeed."


"A strong determined spirit is unstoppable."


"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."


"Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true."


"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."


"The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop."


"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."


"With a houseful of kids you give each other strength."



"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."


"Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy."


"Your man may be untroubled about the Future, not because he is concerned with the Present, but because he has persuaded himself that the Future is going to be agreeable. As long as that is the real course of his tranquillity, his tranquillity will do us good, because it is only piling up more disappointment, and therefore more impatience, for him when his false hopes are dashed. If, on the other hand, he is aware that horrors may be in store for him and is praying for the virtues, wherewith to meet them, and meanwhile concerning himself with the Present because there, and there alone, all duty, all grace, all knowledge, and all pleasure dwell, his state is very undesirable and should be attacked at once."


"Perseverance, endurance and patience are the three greatest survival skills."


"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."


"You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment."


"You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else."
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