Strength Quotes - Page 33

• The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hands, Aggressors

  Speech at an English Speaking Union Dinner, July 03, 1951.

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• It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strong, Lying, Tests

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.111

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• Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

  T. S. Eliot

  Cake, Ice, Tea

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Views, Light, Talent

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• Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.432

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• Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.

  A. E. Housman

  Luck, Towers, Hours

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.114, Delphi Classics

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• Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Judging, Individuality

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

  Rumi

  Lying, Pride, Evil

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• The more you care, the stronger you can be.

  Jim Rohn

  Love, Motivational, Being Strong

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 27, 2017

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• I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong.

  Ivana Trump

  Running, Strong, Business

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• The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Strong, Diversity, Expansion

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• Strong lives are those that are marked by a sense of purpose, connectedness, resilience, and fulfillment.

  Jenifer Fox

  Strong, Resilience, Purpose

  Jenifer Fox (2008). “Your Child's Strengths: A Guide for Parents and Teachers”, p.28, Penguin

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• Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.

  Delbert L. Stapley

  Father, Blessing, Giving

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• A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strong, Mistake, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1993). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Strong, Wall, Weak Will

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

  Sophocles

  Fire, Iron, Ends

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

  Hannah Arendt

  Independence, Peculiar, Purpose

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.

  Mao Zedong

  Strong, Giving, Important

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• I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

  Carrie Nation

  Inspirational, Rocks, Giants

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• The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Knows, Limitation

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.53, University of Chicago Press

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• The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
  Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Encouraging, Self Esteem, Adventure

  Jonathan Huie, Mary Anne Radmacher (2009). “Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad”, p.3, Conari Press

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• In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
  In the midst of the storm - calm.
  In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
  In the many roads - a certain choice.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Encouraging, Choices, Heartfelt

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• Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Family Love, Eternal Love, Happy Day

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• Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.

  Harriet Rubin

  Destiny, Enemy, Instruments

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• There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

  Felicia Hemans

  Heart, Dwelling, Heaven

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1839). “The Works of Mrs Hemans;: With a Memoir of Her Life,”, p.77

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