Strong Words Quotes

• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Argument, Command

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.33

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• Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.

  Scott Wolf

  Strong, Work, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Strong words are required for weak principles.

  Douglas Horton

  Strong, Weakness, Principles

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• Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.

  Bill Gates

  Strong, Stolen, Owners

  "Bill Gates on … the Competition". Interview with Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher, www.wsj.com. June 19, 2006.

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• Faith is a strong word in my life. That's one thing my mother has always stressed to me.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Mother, Strong, Nfl

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• There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

  James Corden

  Heartbroken, Strong, Couple

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Atheist, Attitude

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• 'Sacrifice' seems like such a strong word to me because I wouldn't say I've sacrificed anything. If I didn't enjoy what I do, I wouldn't do it. I might have missed out on a few things when I was younger and growing up.

  Liam Tancock

  Strong, Growing Up, Sacrifice

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think that if you use the so-called "strong words" you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.

  Frank Zappa

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Crossfire" on CNN, 1986.

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• Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

  Drake

  Strong, People, Mind

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• Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be.

  David Graham Phillips

  Strong, Army, People

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• Don't use such strong words. It'll only make you look weak.

  Tite Kubo

  Strong, Looks, Use

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• I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Strong, Hate, Teenager

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2008). “Gossip Girl 2: You Know You Love Me”, p.111, A&C Black

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• Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Strong, Paper, Written

  Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.27, Penguin

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• Very' is such a strong word.

  Derek Landy

  Strong

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.107, HarperCollins UK

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• I like good strong words that mean something.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Strong, Mean, Little Women

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “The Complete Little Women Series: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys: The Beloved Classics of American Literature: The coming-of-age series based on the author’s own childhood experiences with her three sisters”, p.37, e-artnow

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• Liar's such a strong word. I prefer to think of it as me omitting some of the details" - Alex

  Jessica Sorensen

  Strong, Liars, Thinking

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• The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Strong, Brother

  Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• I’m more comfortable with myself than when I was younger. I hated myself then. Wait, I didn’t hate myself – that’s a strong word. But I was so diffident. I didn’t know how to act, for one. I had no confidence in that area or in myself at all, really. I had a big inner critic and still do. I just don’t listen to it so much.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Strong, Hate, Waiting

  Interview with Tom Mottram, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.

  Thomas Sowell

  Strong, Men, Wrath

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