Strength Quotes - Page 37

• Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.

  Robert H. Shaffer

  Character, Strange, Warmth

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• Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

  Robert Browning

  Waste, Doom, Impart

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strong, Struggle, Heaven

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• No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Organization, Ordinary

  "Management".

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• Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Creativity, Talent, Given

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• There is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance. . . . "Look to God and live." This is the wonderful promise given so often in the scriptures. . . . Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Promise, Comfort, Looks

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• The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Change, Impact, House

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• Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Understanding, Enlightenment

  Laozi (1990). “Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way”, Bantam

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• A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.

  Laozi

  Strong, Men, Water

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• Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow.

  John Drinkwater

  Fashion, Blow, Steel

  John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”

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• When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Gardening, Citizens

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

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• If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

  Henry Adams

  Sleep, Devil, May

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• A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Principles, World, Weapons

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• ... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell

  Girl, Boys, Intellectual

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• If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Self, Mischief

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Lying, Suffering

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• Strength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Needs, Stories

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.163, editionNEXT.com

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• What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Weakness, Sin

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1085, Manonmani Publishers

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• Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Reality, Men, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1321, Manonmani Publishers

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• The best guide in life is strength.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Life Is, Guides, Vedanta

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.28, editionNEXT.com

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• Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Views, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.163, editionNEXT.com

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• All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Past, Want, Infinite

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.159, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Infinite strength is religion and God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Infinite

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• "You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest your Self in a high degree.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Perfect, Degrees

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.736, Manonmani Publishers

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• Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Men, Childhood

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.89, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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