- General Welfare
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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
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a strength to being able to look at products through a customer's eyes, but it is also dangerous.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true - ever since I was born, I've been through some tough situations. But that's what has given me the strength and the drive to succeed.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the women that we dress, the women who buy our clothes, they have a certain strength. It could be about the clothes, it could be about themselves. It's just attractive.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020