701 private quotes tagged strength

“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.” — David Brainerd

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“A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.” — Tecumseh

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“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.” — John Ruskin

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“I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.” — Joan Jett

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“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.” — Theodor Adorno

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“Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.” — George Henry Lewes

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“Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” — Drew Barrymore

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“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” — Marge Piercy

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“I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.” — Michelle Obama

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“Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.” — Salma Hayek

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“God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.” — Abdul Kalam

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“I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.” — Dusty Baker

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“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.” — Robert Kiyosaki

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“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.” — John Cheever

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“Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.” — John Cheever

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“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” — Mother Teresa

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“It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.” — Giacomo Casanova

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“An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” — W. E. B. Du Bois

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“My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.” — Antonio Gramsci

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“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.” — Arthur Miller

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“The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.” — Audre Lorde

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“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” — Vince Lombardi

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“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.” — Ralph Cudworth

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