Strong Enough Quotes - Page 6

• They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.

  Diana Ross

  Strong, Men, Worry

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• If the fence is strong enough I'll sit on it.

  Cyril Smith

  Strong, Enough, Fence

  1974 In the Observer,15 Sep.

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• Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Fire, Mind

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• There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

  Criss Jami

  Inspirational, Strong, Ugly Duckling

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.47, Criss Jami

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• Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Strong, Children, Believe

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

  Conrad Veidt

  Strength, Strong, Should Have

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• Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it

  Anamika Mishra

  Strong, Pay, Sin

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• You want a woman who, if needed, will be the CEO of the home. In essence, you want a woman who understands the difference between ambition and busyness. You also want a woman who understands that submission is strength, not weakness. Meaning, she understands the importance of your leadership but she is also strong enough not to allow you to run over her.

  Tony Gaskins

  Running, Strong, Home

  Source: kish-magazine.com

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• People don't necessarily take power from you for themselves. It just means they are operating at a lower attention level and you got pulled down by it. You are not sufficiently strong enough to be with someone and be unaffected.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Mean, People

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• It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Strong, Nice, Thinking

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog, whichever was handy. If you stole a dog and were caught, you were punished with twelve rabbit punches, although it was hard to find rabbits big enough or strong enough to punch you.

  Mike Harding

  Dog, Strong, Humorous

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• We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities.

  Mario Cuomo

  Strong, Smart, Believe

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.

  Helen Keller

  Strong, Thinking, Rights

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Exercise

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• Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

  Beatrice Webb

  Strong, Fear, Patient

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• You connect with who you connect with, and if your feelings are strong enough then you'll make that work.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  Strong, Feelings, Enough

  "Jesse Metcalfe interview: So I'm a sex symbol? Well there are worse things I could be!". www.mirror.co.uk. August 23, 2011.

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• We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Strong, Effort, Wish

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We [USA] need to deal with our problems here at home if we're going to be strong enough to lead abroad.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Strong, Home, Usa

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• But what do I care, for love will be over so soon,
  Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by,
  For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent,
  It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.

  Sara Teasdale

  Love, Song, Strong

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.5, Рипол Классик

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• Let your throat-song
  be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length
  suppliant, at the door.

  Rumi

  Song, Strong, Fall

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.304, Penguin UK

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• Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Strong, Divorce

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• Had He not emerged from the tomb all our hopes, all our salvation would be lying dead with Him unto this day. But as we see Him issue from the grave we see ourselves issue with Him in newness of life. Now we know that His shoulders were strong enough to bear the burden that was laid upon them, and that He is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through Him. The resurrection of Christ is thus the indispensable evidence of His completed work, His accomplished redemption.

  B. B. Warfield

  Strong, Easter, Lying

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• the mother's first job is to raise a daughter strong enough to outlast her.

  Gail Caldwell

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Strong, Drinking, Order

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• Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

  Samuel Richardson

  Strong, Mind, Enough

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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