Being Strong Quotes - Page 7

• Strength is a matter of a made up mind.

  John Beecher

  Strength, Mind, Matter

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• People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Character, People, Depth

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• Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.5, Best Books on

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• You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

  Ken Kesey

  Strength, Stay Strong, Funny Things

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.123, Hamilton Books

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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

  Life, Strength, Running

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• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Confidence, Courage, Art

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I was only given this life because I'm strong enough to live it.

  Robert Pattinson

  Strength, Courage, Enough

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• What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

  Patty Berg

  Determination, Winning, Dedication

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• Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.

  Tom Chappell

  Winning, Views, Competition

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• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

  Martha Graham

  Leadership, Work, Adversity

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• I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

  Little Richard

  Mother, Strong Women, Husband

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• Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspirational, Stay Strong, Honest

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• The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Where We Come

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Heart, Brain

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.356, Pearson Education

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• Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Strength, Fantasy Novels, Roots

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

  John F. Kennedy

  Greatness, Men, Deeds

  "Profiles In Courage".

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• The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

  Khalil Gibran

  Song, Sweet, Heart

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• He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational Life, Needs, Littles

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• There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can't. Yet, in your belief you'll find the strength, you'll find the ability, to do it anyway.

  Ralph Marston

  Strength, Running, Believe

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• In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Exercise, Lazy, Mind

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.263

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• This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

  Robert W. Service

  Law, Survival, Yukon

  "The Law of the Yukon" l. 71 (1907)

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• There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Strength, Women

  Time, Volume 120, 1982.

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• When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, Decision, Needs

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