- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember myself as an asthmatic child, having great difficulties at 7, 8 and 9 years old, falling totally in love with 'Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle' and dreaming of having his strength to leap into trees and throw mighty lions to the ground.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
- Awareness
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- Nov 07, 2020
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020