Strength Quotes - Page 26

• Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Time, Character, Men

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Elephants, Wish, Use

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• God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.

  Jan L. Richardson

  Soul, May, Quiet

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• We are what we think about.  When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts.  The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Thinking, Self, Giving

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• A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Hope, Wisdom

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.38, BookRix

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• I will be steel!
  I will build a steel bridge over my need!
  I will build a bomb shelter over my heart!
  But my future is a secret.
  It is as shy as a mole.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Bridges, Secret

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strong, War, Helping

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.599, Best Books on

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• When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

  Aldrich Ames

  Country, Strong, Agency

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• I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.

  Albert Wynn

  Strong, Government, Support

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• Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Children, Eye

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• I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

  Conrad Veidt

  Strong, Should Have, Conquer

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• The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Son, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.361

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• In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Strong, Silly

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Penguin

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• States strong enough to do good are but few.
  Their number would seem limited to three.

  Robert Frost

  Strong, Numbers, Three

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nuclear, Weapons, Judgment

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• Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
  Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
  A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
  Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

  William C. Bryant

  Freedom, Race, Free Spirit

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• I count life just a stuff
  To try the soul's strength on.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Soul, Trying

  'In a Balcony' (1855) l. 651

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• Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Giving, Deeds

  "Titan", Zykel 145 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

  Laozi

  Strong, Powerful, Men

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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, Being Alone

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

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• Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world...
  No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter
  with a clear conscience break his contract with society.
  To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen,
  to do more than your share under it is noble.

  Isaiah Bowman

  Education, Respect, Men

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• Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspirational, Organization, Waiting

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• As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.

  Aminu Kano

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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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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