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- Nov 07, 2020
Strength Quotes
On resilience, femininity, and what really holds firm.
This set covers strength at very different scales, from women feeling pressure to prove themselves through masculine-coded traits instead of trusting their own femininity, to a bridge metaphor that measures a society by its weakest point rather than its average. See Courage quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like to keep things small and subtle and authentic, and ground everything in reality. So that is something that I feel is my strength as a director and I try to achieve as an actor.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have any strength that would be considered above average, it is that I can read people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
- Graceful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our economy, for a long while, has been transitioning from one reliant on industrial strength to one based on digital information. The next step in this transition is a digital economy shaped by connectivity.
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- Nov 07, 2020