701 private quotes tagged strength

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” — John F. Kennedy

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“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” — Maya Angelou

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“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson

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“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” — John F. Kennedy

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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.” — Aldous Huxley

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“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.” — Winston Churchill

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“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” — Helen Keller

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“Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.” — James Dyson

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“My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.” — Bear Grylls

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“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.” — Jesse Ventura

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“Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.” — Xun Zi

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“Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.” — Stephen Moyer

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“My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.” — Gary Sheffield

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“Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.” — Josephus Daniels

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“But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.” — Robert Peel

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“Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.” — Jaclyn Smith

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