“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”
— Chris Bradford
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
— Dolly Parton
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”
— John F. Kennedy
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Perhaps I am stronger than I think.”
— Thomas Merton
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
— Marie Curie
“God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.”
— Edward Bouverie Pusey
“You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.”
— Paula Radcliffe
“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”
— John C. Maxwell
“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.”
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.”
“If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.”
— Corrie ten Boom
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
— John Steinbeck
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.”
— Orison Swett Marden
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
— Erica Jong
“When I’ve heard all I need to make a decision, I don’t take a vote. I make a decision.”
— Ronald Reagan
“A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.”
— Tecumseh
“You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
— Winston Churchill
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. ”
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.”
— Aristotle
“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.”
— Les Brown
“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.”
— Tom Chappell
“When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”
— Joseph Campbell
“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“From caring comes courage.”
— Laozi
“The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
— Sigmund Freud
“A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another’s emotional support.”
— Mary Watkins
“A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.”
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”
“He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
— Og Mandino
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