701 private quotes tagged strength

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Silence is a source of great strength.” — Lao Tzu

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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

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“We acquire the strength we have overcome.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.” — Charles Stanley

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“People do not lack strength they lack will.” — Victor Hugo

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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.” — Oscar Wilde

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“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” — Corrie Ten Boom

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“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” — Saint Francis de Sales

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“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.” — Ruby Dee

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“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” — Plato

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“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller

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“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” — Michael Jordan

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“There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.” — Lewis Carroll

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“Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.” — Sextus Propertius

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“I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.” — Janelle Monae

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“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.” — Lao Tzu

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“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” — Confucius

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