Strength Quotes - Page 35

• The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Essence, Humans, Olympism

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• I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

  Bill Moyers

  Might, Pay, Circus

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• A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.

  Martin Niemoller

  Men, Thinking, Stronger

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• With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Sorrow, Fidelity, Endure

  Frances Sargent Osgood (1838). “A wreath of wild flowers from New England”, p.221

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• Black is a colour of power and strength.

  Hayden Fry

  Black, Colour, Power And Strength

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Sympathy, Grief, Choices

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• We make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Nicomachean Ethics bk. 10, 1177b See Vegetius 1

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• Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

  Ross Perot

  Motivational, Success, Inspirational Sports

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• Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

  Alexander Pope

  Time, Passion, Stronger

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.228

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• A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Powerful, Communication

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Responsibility, Rights

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• Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Russia, Rights

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• Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

  Ayn Rand

  Power, Men, Choices

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.604, Hamilton Books

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• Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, Children, Freedom

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.183, Humanix Books

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• Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Peace, Strong

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Sloth, Wicked

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• Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Bullying

  "You Learn by Living".

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• The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Strong, Freedom

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Dedication, Wish

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899

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• I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

  Susan Sarandon

  Strong, Thinking, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Compassion, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Stress, Crazy

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• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

  Haile Selassie

  Differences, Goal, Unity

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• I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Challenges, Weight, Feels

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