Strength Quotes
6496 Strength quotes by 3205 unique authors
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Weakness and strength are necessary for balance. No one or nothing is only weak or only strong. But some of us overlook our weaknesses, and…
— Joseph M. Marshall III
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Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.
— George Crabbe
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So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;…
— Laozi
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There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change…
— James E. Faust
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Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not…
— Laurie Helgoe
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold…
— Albert Camus
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What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the…
— Donald O. Clifton
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Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget…
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
— Samuel Johnson
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I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more…
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth…
— John Bunyan
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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing…
— John Milton
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Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of…
— Emma Goldman
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To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and…
— Epictetus
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Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. Â It is…
— Ramana Maharshi
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If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the…
— Ramakrishna
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We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance…
— Matthew Henry
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Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the…
— John Bunyan
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Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy,…
— William Gurnall
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This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl…
— William Appleman Williams
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Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems…
— Alice Miller
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We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.
— M. Scott Peck
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An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence…
— Harriet Lerner
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To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.
— Jack Kornfield
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