Strength Quotes - Page 21

• He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

  Socrates

  Life, Change, Running

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• A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

  Ally Condie

  Wonder, Matched, Ifs

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.113, Penguin

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• Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

  Anais Nin

  Sisterhood, Men, Needs

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• None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Strong, Passion, Greatness

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• Since the trainee is both inefficient and unadapted, only a few basic exercises should be used, and they should be repeated frequently to establish the basic motor pathways and basic strength.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Exercise, Pathways, Used

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• Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.

  Lev Raphael

  Mean, Personal Power, Secure

  Gershen Kaufman, Lev Raphael, Pamela Espeland (1999). “Stick Up for Yourself!: Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem”, p.8, Free Spirit Publishing

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• Suffering = Pain x Resistance

  Shinzen Young

  Pain, Work Out, Suffering

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• The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Spiritual, Jesus

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

  Richelle Mead

  Fighting, Thinking, Complaining

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.196, Penguin

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• When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Peace, Strong, Neighbor

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• Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Military, Army, Feet

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• It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sex, Men, Female

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• Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Majesty, Clamor, Honorable

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• Must I remind you that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link?

  Jerome Cady

  Stronger, Links, Chains

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• Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Errors, Giving

  Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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• It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.

  Richard Ingrams

  Art, Anger, People

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• Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action.... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and strength in opposition one against the other. We can readily integrate the two, search for more and better ways to use affiliation to enhance strength--and strength to enhance affiliation.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Two, Together, Groups

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.96, Beacon Press

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• The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.

  Philippe Aries

  Music, Hero, Typical

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Solitude, Solitary, Doom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.347, Рипол Классик

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• My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

  Mason Cooley

  Weakness, Charitable, Contemptuous

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• We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hurt, Defeat, Conscious

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• Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

  Mason Cooley

  Teacher, Weakness, Obstacles

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• Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Character, Strength Of Character, Eccentricity

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• So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Money, Women, Heart

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