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Strength Quotes



"The church today has reduced the Christians to a level that has made them to be too weak to make anything happen."


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


"Be thankful to those who refuse to help you, for they force you to summon upon your warrior within."


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


"That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria."


"The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican."


"Encouragement is the engine of life."


"Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village."


"True love, the good, beautiful, one - and - only kind, the kind between loving friends and family and partners who are mostly just trying hard to do their best, it manages to overlook some pieces of its story. It overlooks what he can't give you or how she failed you or what mistakes he made when he was struggling. It stays steady at its center. It evolves, through drought and storm. It grows. It survives."


"My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth."


"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."


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


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


"Good and quiet do not connote weakness."


"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also."


"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."


"In a fit of anger he had said to her, "You'll always be miserable," to which she thoughtfully replied, "Is that so? It's impossible to be miserable when you've known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen and refine a person to the point where they may have moments of grief and sadness, but misery is known only to those who have a sense of entitlement...you know, people like you."


"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength."



"I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'"


"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."


"River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me."


"Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny."


"The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."


"Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys."


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


"Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how."


"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers."


"I think I'm learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,but to turn away from it."


"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."


"I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience."


"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."


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