- Growth
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
- Nov 07, 2020
Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
- Nov 07, 2020
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my versatility is a big strength. I don't think anybody can guard me, just because I'm 6'10 and can dribble and play point. If I have a little guy on me, I take him to the post. For me to be able to then pass the ball, it helps me a lot.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020