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Strength Quotes
"Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect control of herself-Oh, yes!-in every other way."
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"Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance."
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"Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines."
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"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."
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"Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe."
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"Strong people define themselves, weak people allow others to define them."
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"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
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"I'm a lover not a fighter. But when I have to fight, I fight to win. There cannot be another outcome."
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"Look well into thyself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."
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"You are strong, tempered like steel in the fire and by the blows of the hammer of life. Nothing will break you again, only make you stronger and more whole. Perfection is the pride of those who have not lived, who know not these things in their arrogance. They remain the same - raw and without form. The hammer never touches them, and they lie on the shelf, gathering dust, slowly tarnishing and fading and crumbling. the blows of the hammer in the fire refine us into bright shining glory for the roles we play in life - until we are one with the anvil, becoming immune to the hammer's little knocks, and smile at it."
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"Women like clothes, they like shoes, they like flowers and they like people to look at them and think,'God, she's gorgeous.' The more people who think that, the better it is. The one day in your life where you get all that rolled up into one is your wedding day. And itcomes with jewelry and presents and endswith a vacation where it's practically law that you have to wear fabulous underwear and have lots of sex."
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"It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men."
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"There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud."
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"Power and love can break the most stubborn resistence."
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"Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!"
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"Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction."
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"Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!"
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"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."
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"Encouragement is a blazing hope."
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"It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure."
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""I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you think"."
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"If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up."
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"Percy: The Heka-what? Annabeth: The Hundred-Handed Ones. They called them that because... well, they had a hundred hands. They were the elder brothers of the Cyclopes. Tyson: Very powerful. Wonderful! As tall as the sky. So strong they can break mountains! Percy: Cool. Unless you're a mountain."
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"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."
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"When you overcome the difficulties of life, you develop an inner strength."
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"Anita is small and colourless in her grey trousers, grey knitted cardigan, grey hair and grey skin. But ove notices that her face is slightly red-eyed and swollen. Quickly she wipes her eyes and blinks away the pain. As women of that generation do. As if they stood in the doorway every morning, determinedly driving sorrow out of the house with a broom."
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"Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning."
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"A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others."
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"The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit."
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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 the oceanby the frailty of its foam.To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy."
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"Don't deceive yourself; laughing at someone's weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!"
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"I'm strong beyond appearances reveal,But I'm human, and have weak moments still."
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"You don't need armor if your skin is thick. You don't need a sword if your mind is sharp. You don't need a shield if your heart is strong. You don't need a fortress is your soul is secure."
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