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Strength Quotes



"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars."


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


"Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman."


"I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction."


"All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have."


"Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you."


"I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together."


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


"Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience..."


"While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs."


"What we become shouldn't be dictated by the mud and the dung and the dust and the fire and the ice and the dirt and the spit that hit us in the face, but what we become must be a choice made every day in the heart; and they who threw all of that at us to try and defile us" they will look up at us and see us no less beautiful. And even more beautiful."


"He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation."


"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."


"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."


"I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition."


"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."


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


"Encouragement is a blazing hope."


"I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'd want my autograph. I'm a real life superhero."


"Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father."


"True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day."


"Your pain and sufferings can only make you stronger if you aren't repeatedly placing negative interpretations them."


"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."


"Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure."


"A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others."


"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."


"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."


"When they judge you, yawn. When they misunderstand you, smile. When they underestimate you, laugh. When they condemn you, ignore. When they envy you, rejoice. When they oppose you, prevail."



"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 the oceanby the frailty of its foam.To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy."


"Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance."
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