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• To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

  Erin Andrews

  Giving Up, Fall, Thinking

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• True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

  Simon Sinek

  Strength, Being Strong, Courage

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2012

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• My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort, I am reminded that my only true strength lies in drinking.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Lying, Drinking

  Chelsea Handler (2008). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, And Love, Violence

  "Pope Francis: ‘Faith And Violence Are Incompatible", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2013.

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• The true strength of any relationship is measured in bad times not good.

  Miles J. Stanford

  Bad Relationship, Bad Times, Good Times And Bad Times

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• And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope. For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, America, Giving

  Barack Obama's Victory Speech at Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, abcnews.go.com. November 4, 2008.

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• We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Opportunity, Democracy

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• You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Strong, Struggle

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• Germany had come late to feast at the table of colonialism and did not feel that the division of colonial spoils at that particular moment in time reflected its true strength and its true weight in the imperialist world.

  Gerald Horne

  Colonialism, Germany, Division

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Meaningful, Determination, Lying

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

  Immanuel Kant

  Determination, Law, Hands

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• Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

  Vince Lombardi

  Humility, Sacrifice, Greatness

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• If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Disappointment, Real

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• True strength isn’t in killing—or ignoring—your opponent, it’s in having the will to shield those who need your protection.

  Ilona Andrews

  Needs, Opponents, Shields

  Ilona Andrews (2014). “Magic Breaks”, p.248, Penguin

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• Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength.

  Sivananda

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Hatred

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• True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me.

  Kamahl

  Lying, Action, Weak

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• True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want.

  Paget Brewster

  Lying, Knowing, Want

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• It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Pain, Understanding, Causes

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• True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart.

  Rickson Gracie

  Art, Mma, Victory

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• We are born male. We must learn to be men. Remember, strength is a force. It is an attribute of the heart. Its opposite is not weakness and fear, but confusion, lack of clarity, and lack of sound intention. If you are able to discern the path with heart and follow it even when at the moment it seems wrong, then and only then are you strong. Remember the words of Tao te ching. "The only true strength is a strength that people do not fear." Strength based in force is a strength people fear. Strength based in love is a strength people crave.

  Kent Nerburn

  Strong, Fear, Heart

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• If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, People, Ego

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• If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own

  Donald O. Clifton

  Wind, Inner Strength, Denial

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

  Ovid

  Hands, Humans, Human Beings

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• For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

  Matthew Arnold

  Strength, Kings, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.366, Delphi Classics

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• My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.

  Rashad Evans

  Mother, Hero, Adversity

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