- Failure
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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
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.
- Exerting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- Football Games
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
- Components
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one of the things I do in almost all my books - my protagonist is put through a very stressful situation that tests their strength and their psychological acuity. That's one of the core components of who I am as a writer.
- Greatest Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was really important that 'Dream' kept the balance of strength and total vulnerability - which was my exact headspace when it was being written.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020