Quotes about strength
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Best quotes about strength

„It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.“
— Frederick Douglass American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818 - 1895
Variant: It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones.
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

„The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart“
— John Nash American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate 1928 - 2015

„Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one“
— Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973

„I like good strong words that mean something…“
— Louisa May Alcott, book Little Women
Source: Little Women

„Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.“
— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008

„When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.“
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

„Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.“
— T.S. Eliot 20th century English author 1888 - 1965

„You feel your strength in the experience of pain.“
— Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971

„If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.“
— Napoleon Hill American author 1883 - 1970
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„Hatred is like a Hydra - the more heads one chops off, the stronger it grows.“
— Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966
Nienawiść jest jak Hydra, im więcej głów ścinasz, tym bardziej ją wzmacniasz.
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

— H.L. Mencken American journalist and writer 1880 - 1956
Source: On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe


„People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they've been strong for too long.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963


„You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.“
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
Variant: You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice...

„Only the weak will fall and give up, the strong falls 100 times and wakes up 200 times“
— Cornelius Keagon Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996

— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941

„You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.“
— Tupac Shakur, book The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

„If the citizens are wealthy, the country is strong. The King's storehouse is his people.“
— Prithvi Narayan Shah far-sighted king/unifier of Nepal 1722 - 1775
Quoted in page 178 of * Pradhan
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Thapa Politics in Nepal: With Special Reference to Bhim Sen Thapa, 1806–1839
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https://books.google.com/books?id=7PP1yElRzIUC

— Audre Lorde, book The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997, p. 13.
— Ed Warren American paranormal investigator, demonologist, exorcist, ghost hunter 1926 - 2006

„You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.“
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

„Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.“
— Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983
Source: Clippings from My Notebook

— Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh 1920 - 1975
Speaking about the break up of Pakistan with Nigerian leader Yakubu Gowon. http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2009/08/02/tribute.htm
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— Joseph Goebbels Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897 - 1945
https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/haken32.htm “Those Damn Nazis: Why Are We Socialists?”
Written by Joseph Goebbels and Mjölnir, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher (1932). “Those Damned Nazis,” (Nazi propaganda pamphlet).
1930s

— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
Quote of Vincent's letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, 3 April 1878; a cited in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to his Brother, 1872-1886 (1927) Constable & Co
Variant: Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 483
1870s
Context: If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

„Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.“
— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

„The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900

„Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.“
— Theodor W. Adorno German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society 1903 - 1969

— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941
Source: Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
— Masashi Kishimoto, book Naruto
Source: Naruto, Vol. 21: Pursuit

„The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.“
— Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902
Pearls of Wisdom


„The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.“
— Charles Manson American criminal and musician 1934 - 2017

„A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.“
— Louisa May Alcott American novelist 1832 - 1888

„You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.“
— Dr. Dre American rapper, entrepreneur, actor, and record producer 1965
– Dr. Dre, introducing N.W.A's 1988 album Straight Outta Compton.

— Tina Turner singer, dancer, actress, and author 1939
Tina Turner is a soul survivor http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/141823/Tina-Turner-is-a-soul-survivor, Daily Express, 22th of November 2009

— Erich von Manstein German general 1887 - 1973
Describing Mission Command, Lost Victories, The Winter Campaign In South Russia

— Grigori Rasputin Russian mystic 1869 - 1916
Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916

„One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100 000 who have only interests. “
— Anders Behring Breivik Norwegian mass murderer 1979

— John Steinbeck, book East of Eden
Variant: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Source: East of Eden

„Women are never so strong as after their defeat.“
— Alexandre Dumas French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist 1802 - 1870
Source: Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois

— Isaac Bashevis Singer Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902 - 1991
Preface to Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions by Steven Rosen (New York: Bala Books, 1987, )
Variant: To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.
Context: Vegetarianism is my religion. I became a consistent vegetarian some twenty-three years ago. Before that, I would try over and over again. But it was sporadic. Finally, in the mid-1960s, I made up my mind. And I've been a vegetarian ever since. When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give. … This is my protest against the conduct of the world. To be a vegetarian is to disagree — to disagree with the course of things today. Nuclear power, starvation, cruelty — we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.

— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900

„Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.“
— B.K.S. Iyengar, book Light on Yoga
Source: Light on Yoga

— Thomas Hardy English novelist and poet 1840 - 1928
Variant: When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018
British Telecom advertisement (1993), part of which was used in Pink Floyd's Keep Talking (1994) and Talkin' Hawkin'<nowiki/> (2014)
Context: For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
„Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.“
— Dale Carnegie American writer and lecturer 1888 - 1955

„Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.“
— Wassily Kandinsky Russian painter 1866 - 1944
Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art

„It's better to burn out than to fade away.“
— Neil Young Canadian singer-songwriter 1945
Misattributed

„The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.“
— Phil Jackson basketball player and coach from the United States 1945

„LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!“
— Leonard Ravenhill British writer 1907 - 1994
„We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.“
— Carlos Castaneda, book Journey to Ixtlan
Variant: We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same
Source: Journey to Ixtlan

— Woodrow Wilson American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921) 1856 - 1924
— Christina Dodd American writer 1957
Source: A Well Pleasured Lady

— Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Saint, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) 1491 - 1556
No. 325.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

„Respect the beliefs of other people, so your faith remains strong.“
— Youssef Bey Karam Lebanese rebel 1823 - 1889
Youssef Bey Karam Foundation

— Frédéric Chopin Polish composer 1810 - 1849
As quoted in his letter to his father, dated December 6th 1817[citation needed]

— Francis Xavier Navarrese Basque Roman Catholic saint and missionary 1506 - 1552
Neill, S. (2004). A history of Christianity in India: The beginning to AD 1707. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

— Lady Gaga American singer, songwriter, and actress 1986
SHOWstudio Interview. In Camera with Lady Gaga 30 May 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcxdZQCnT4&feature=PlayList&p=6DB0E6483F09B62E&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1.

— Ferdinand Marcos former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986 1917 - 1989
Address at the launching of the Mabuhay Ang Pilipino Movement, Malacañang (30 November 1972)
1965

„So let love take us through the hours,
I won't be complainin'
'Cause this is love power.“
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
Off the Wall (1979)

— Mikhail Bakunin Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism 1814 - 1876
As quoted in Karl Marx: A Life, by Francis Wheen, London: UK, Fourth Estate (1999) p. 340.
— Anton LaVey, book The Satanic Bible
The Satanic Bible (1969)

— Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946
To Leon Goldensohn (24 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)

— Charles Spurgeon British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834 - 1892
The Soul-Winner (1895)

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Austrian writer 1830 - 1916
Der eitle, schwache Mensch sieht in Jedem einen Richter, der stolze, starke hat keinen Richter als sich selbst.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 34.

„Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.“
— Mick Jagger British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones 1943
— Paul Twitchell American writer 1909 - 1971

— Dilma Rousseff 36th President of Brazil 1947
Gilberto Gil, Minister of Culture (2003–2008). IstoeÉ magazine, December 28, 2005.

— Harvey Milk American politician who became a martyr in the gay community 1930 - 1978
On supporting the elderly, who he called the most oppressed group in America. From Flashback: Meet San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9iYasWREzE, NBC News, November 27, 2018, taken from a report in 1978, and Forty years after his death, Harvey Milk's legacy still lives on https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/forty-years-after-his-death-harvey-milk-s-legacy-still-n940356, NBC News, November 27, 2018.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, book On the Genealogy of Morality
Essay 3, Aphorism 16
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
— Kristin Cast, book Awakened
Source: Awakened

— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
Presidency (1977–1981), 1977

„The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!“
— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
Variant: The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
" The Problem of Increasing Human Energy http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1900-06-00.htm", Century Illustrated Magazine (June 1900)

„What I need… is a strong drink and a peer group.“
— Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

— John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914
The Yosemite http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_yosemite/ (1912), chapter 15: Hetch Hetchy Valley
1910s
Variant: Everybody needs beauty... places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
„Better to be strong than pretty and useless.“
— Lilith Saintcrow, book Strange Angels
Source: Strange Angels

— Sojourner Truth African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist 1797 - 1883
Ain't I a Woman? Speech (1851)

— Patrick Rothfuss, book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 86, “The Fire Itself” (pp. 672-673)
„He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.“
— Ken Kesey, book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Variant: You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

„What does not kill him, makes him stronger.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche, book Ecce homo
… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
"Why I Am So Wise", 2
Cf. Twilight of the Idols (1888), "Maxims and Arrows", aphorism 8: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Ecce Homo (1888)
— James P. Carse American academic
Source: Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

„Strength lies in differences, not in similarities“
— Stephen R. Covey American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker 1932 - 2012