Human Strength Quotes

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Being Strong, Character, People

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

  Leon Trotsky

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Fall

  Leon Trotsky, George Breitman, George Saunders (1977). “Portraits, political & personal”

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• One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

  Jean Anouilh

  Strength, Sympathy, Grief

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.327, Penguin

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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, Being Strong, Perseverance

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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• There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivational, Strength

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• The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Strength, Being Strong

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• You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Strength, Love You, Heart

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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  The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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  Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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  The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Strength

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  You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Strength, Kindness

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  The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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