Stronger Quotes - Page 28

• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

  J. I. Packer

  Body, Waste, Chronic Pain

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Realizing, Imagine, Capable

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• Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.

  Drake

  Pain, Wiser, Make Me Strong

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• When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Messages, Grows

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.81, Image

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• Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Mean, Athlete, Athletic

  "CrossFit: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" by Mark Rippetoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2013.

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• In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspiration, Writing, Willpower

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.118, Penguin

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• I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience.... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Unique, Challenges, Growth

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• If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

  Tom Petty

  Love, Long, Skins

  Song: Rhino Skin

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• Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Temptation, Wavering

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• For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

  David Foster Wallace

  Travel, Bovine, Agoraphobia

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• Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values, hues, and intensity. A large room can be made to look smaller by marked contrasts of color and value, hue, and intensity. Value is one of the most important elements. Whether light or dark, little value contrast makes for unity, and sharper contrast makes for stronger punctuation.

  Van Day Truex

  Dark, Color, Small Rooms

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• As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Butterfly, Character, Adversity

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• The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

  Polly Toynbee

  Years, Lasts, Poverty

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Stars, Struggle, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2252, Manonmani Publishers

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• Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.

  Drake

  Life, Black, Being Different

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• I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

  Roger Federer

  Believe, Way, Life Is

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• We shouldn't pray for a lighter load to carry but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects his love and power.

  Brother Yun

  Love, God, Christian

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2002). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.229, Monarch Books

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• I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Intellectual, Way

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• The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

  Jimmy Carter

  Common Humanity, Prejudice, Divisiveness

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.159, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Tree, Negativity, Meditation

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• I gotta big mouth, I can't help it, I talk from my heart, I'm real, whatever comes comes. But my controversy problem, it's not my fault, I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just make money off of everybody. So I go down paths that haven't been traveled before and I usually mess up, but I learn, I come back stronger.

  Tupac Shakur

  Real, Heart, Trying

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• Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats in the future. Our immune system develops in combat. If, at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

  Andrew Weil

  Giving, Antibiotics, Able

  Andrew Weil (2004). “Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

  Eartha Kitt

  Used, Thrown, Has Beens

  FaceBook post by Eartha Kitt from Sep 14, 2011

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• We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger.

  Barack Obama

  Remember

  "Obama signs beam of One World Trade Center", www.cnn.com. June 15, 2012.

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• My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Exercise, Brain

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 28, 2011

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