Being Strong Quotes - Page 9

• Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Character, Depth, Moral

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• O, do not pray for easy lives.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Stay Strong, Prayer

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Strength, Integrity, Power

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• It is the business of little minds to shrink.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strength, Perseverance, Humorous

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Strength, Communication, Men

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• I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Prayer, Light

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• A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hope, Expectations, Mind

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• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Peace

  "Attitude : The Power of Positivity". Book by Dr Kenneth Morton, p.56, 2011.

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticises you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

  Leah LaBelle

  Motivational, Positive, Stay Strong

  "Jack Wilshere out for three months as Arsène Wenger's injury list grows" by David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2014.

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• Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

  Thomas Merton

  Strength, Confidence, Stay Strong

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.143, Image

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• It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

  Wendell Willkie

  Strength, Peace, War

  Speech accepting nomination as Republican candidate for president in Elwood, Indiana (August 17, 1940); as quoted in "This Is Wendell Willkie" by Wendell Willkie, (p. 273 - 274), 1940.

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• Hardships make or break people.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Perseverance, Courage, Adversity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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• Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.

  Les Brown

  Fall, Land, Get Up

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• Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

  Alice Morse Earle

  Inspirational, Positive, Good Morning

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

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• Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The worst thing about being strong is no one recognizes the beauty in strength or the love behind it.

  Catherine Fraser

  Love Is, Worst, Behinds

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Perseverance, Men

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• I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Stay Strong

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Encouragement, Character

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Veterans Day, Stay Strong, Giving Up

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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