Stronger Quotes - Page 27

• Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

  H. G. Wells

  Overcoming, Mold, Facts

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• Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Army, Texas

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Ever After, Ability

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• Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fall, Humility, Greatness

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• Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Broken, Break

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• What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even more powerful than the object. And the more you can describe in detail to stir the emotion and the intellect and the spirit and the soul, then the more powerful the 'what for' is.

  Jim Rohn

  Powerful, Soul, Details

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• Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other... You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks... We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.

  Paul Newman

  Husband, Should Have, Breathing

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

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• Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

  John Steinbeck

  Texas, America, Texan

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.125, Penguin

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• I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.

  Kelly Slater

  Careers, Mind, Body

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• No matter what you have gone through in your youth,
  it is about who you choose to be in life.
  You can define your own destiny.
  You can be stronger than a very difficult past
  and overcome it.

  Angelina Jolie

  Past, Destiny, Overcoming

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• The more we stretch the muscle called compassion and generosity, the stronger we get, the better we feel about ourselves, the more loving we become to the world around us.

  Kenny Loggins

  Compassion, Generosity, World

  FaceBook post by Kenny Loggins from Dec 07, 2011

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• Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

  John C. Maxwell

  Character, Adversity, Two

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Medicine, Emptiness, Truthful

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• Let’s face it, we’re all imperfect and we’re going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Fall, Adversity

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Skeletons, Wind, Branches

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

  Plato

  Justice, Advantage

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• The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Small Problems, Self

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• An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

  Walter Lippmann

  Offering, Links, Gains

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• In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.

  Alan Weisman

  Real, Fall, America

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• Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, Trying, Transformation

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• Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

  Henri Nouwen

  Fate, Giving, Goal

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• It's important to make an effort under any circumstance - stagnant, sickness, being in an unstable lifestyle, even when society is insane. You should consider such periods as an omen before you move. When you are stuck on something, it is important to hold to your purpose but not press onward against the current. When you can't move at all, try to concentrate, continuing forward as if in a boat switching to a stronger motor. The keiko that is most important when you cannot move is kage no keiko [shadow training].

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Moving, Effort, Training

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• If a program of physical activity isn't designed to get you stronger or faster or better conditioned by producing a specific stress to which a specific desirable adaptation can occur, you don't get to call it training. It's just exercise.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Stress, Exercise, Training

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• At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

  Isabel Allende

  Blood, Imagination, Flesh

  Isabel Allende (2015). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Silence, Hatred, Enemy

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