Strength Quotes - Page 25

• Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

  Laozi

  Self Confidence, Knowing, Enlightenment

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

  Thucydides

  Peace, Military, War

  Thucydides (1979). “The Speeches of Pericles”, Burns & Oates

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• In union there is strength.

  Aesop

  Teamwork, Community, Brotherhood

  Ann McGovern, Aesop, Arthur Geisert (1990). “Aesop's Fables”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

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• Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Adversity, Warrior, Men

  Robert M. Hensel, “Beyond Limitations”

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• He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Strong, War

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

  Richard G. Scott

  Success, Respect, Character

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• Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

  Stephen Covey

  Self Esteem, Emotional, Identity

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.133, Mango Media Inc.

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• Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single multiform cause, and they will gain strength by knowing it, taking encouragement from it, and when appropriate and opportune, pooling their efforts.

  Jonathan Schell

  Encouragement, Knowing, Rights

  Jonathan Schell (2005). “The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People”

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• If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Art Of War, Giving

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• A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Short Life, Acceptance, Medicine

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• Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Wise, Strong, Humble

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Encouragement, Strong, Ambition

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• Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.

  William Cowper

  Home, Garden, Grace

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.255

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• Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Weakness, Conflict, Vanquish

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• That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

  Aberjhani

  Perseverance, Angel, Joy

  Luther E. Vann, Aberjhani (2008). “Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love”, p.117, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

  James Anthony Froude

  Running, Lying, Long

  "Thomas Carlyle; a History of His Life in London, 1834-1881".

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• The people rate strength before everything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Rate

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• The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

  Aberjhani

  Soul, Sincere, Crosses

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• Out of the night that covers me,
  Black is the pit from pole to pole,
  I thank whatever gods may be
  For my unconquerable soul.
  In the fell clutch of circumstance
  I have not winced nor cried aloud.
  Under the bludgeonings of chance
  My head is bloody, but unbowed.
  Beyond this place of wrath and tears
  Looms but the Horror of the shade,
  And yet the menace of the years
  Finds and shall find me unafraid.
  It matters not how strait the gate,
  How charged with punishments the scroll,
  I am the master of my fate:
  I am the captain of my soul.

  William Ernest Henley

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Fate

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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• If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.

  Freda Adler

  Vices, Criminals, Needs

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• Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

  Emily Dickinson

  Weakness, Artifice

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.461, Harvard University Press

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• There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.

  Peggy Ashcroft

  Play, Tragedy, Roles

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• The farther down the road you go the tougher they get and I live at the end of the road!

  Edward L. Morse

  Ends, End Of The Road, Down The Road

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• I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

  Carl Hoppe

  Life, Integrity, Achievement

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• If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, Strong, Force

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