Strengthening Quotes

• Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Strength, Men

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• I've been training like crazy with my trainer Decker Davis all the time, and we've been doing this new thing called Danger Train. It's kind of storytelling about the offseason training, there's a lot more to come with that. More than anything, from a nutrition aspect to the speed aspect to the strengthening aspect and, most importantly, to the mental aspect, we're always trying to grow exponentially. We're continuing to find new ways to do that.

  Russell Wilson

  Crazy, Always Trying, Training

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

  Ossie Davis

  Motivational, Strength, Struggle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.

  James T. Walsh

  Sex, Children, Safety

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• The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Greek, Hibernation, Able

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 44, 1799.

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

  Vladimir Putin

  Strength, Strong, Russia

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  The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Mean, Science

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 213

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it

  John Locke

  Struggle, Way

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• God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  God, Faith, Christian

  Joni Eareckson Tada, Steven Estes (1997). “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty”, p.121, Harper Collins

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• It isn't enough to just be on the journey; we must be awake to our duty and continue with faith as we draw upon the comforting, strengthening, enabling, and healing power of the Atonement.

  Carole M. Stephens

  Healing, Journey, Comforting

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• When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

  Rumi

  Song, Garden, Light

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

  Paul Brunton

  Character, Growth, Intuition

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the quest. Relax and retreat”, Larson Pubn

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• Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.

  Jeff Sessions

  Self, Economic Value, Goal

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• A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her posocial sense, you are damaging it-and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.

  Martha Stout

  Daughter, Rocks, People

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• All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Order, Two

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• Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

  Allen West

  Book, Law, Immigration

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• Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.

  Thomas Frank

  Agency, Sea, Oil

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.14, MIT Press

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• The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you. Rise up, oh women of Zion, rise up to the great challenge which faces you. My message to you, my challenge to you, my prayer is that you will rededicate yourselves to the strengthening of your homes.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Home, Motherhood

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• Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Law, Giving

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• The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

  Vladimir Putin

  Authoritarianism, Authoritarian Government

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• We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Defense, Might

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• Core strengthening is key to everything. It's not just about the way I look, but about stabilizing my body so I can perform better on stage.

  Paul Stanley

  Keys, Looks, Body

  "Paul Stanley, from 'chunky' kid to fit KISS rocker". Interview with James S. Fell, www.latimes.com. April 20, 2013.

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• President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks to terrorize us into retreating from the world stage. But President Obama has made it a priority to renew American leadership in the world, strengthening our alliances and deepening partnerships.

  John O. Brennan

  Play, Priorities, President

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• Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Teamwork, Democracy, Society

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