Quotes about strength

A collection of quotes on the topic of strong, can, people, doing.

Best quotes about strength

„Your eyes show the strength of your soul.“

— Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

„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

All quotes about strength

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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)

„As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.“

— H.L. Mencken American journalist and writer 1880 - 1956

Source: On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

People, Democracy, Soul, Heart

„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

People, Cry

„Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.“

— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

Love, Life, People, Pleasure

„Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.“

— Zayn Malik British singer 1993

Smile, Happiness

„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...

Powerful

„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

Time

„If you have ever seen the play Peter Pan you will remember how the pirate chief was always making his dying speech because he was afraid that possibly when the time came for him to die he might not have time to get it off his chest. It is much the same with me, and so, although I am not at this moment dying, I shall be doing so one of these days and I want to send you a parting word of goodbye.

Remember, it is the last you will ever hear from me, so think it over.

I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have as happy a life too.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so can enjoy life when you are a man.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn come to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best. "Be Prepared" in this way, to live happy and to die happy - stick to your Scout promise always - even after you have ceased to be a boy - and God help you do it.“

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

Life, God, People, World

„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
Concept Publishing Company
2012
9788180698132
New Delhi
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https://books.google.com/books?id=7PP1yElRzIUC

People, Country

„When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.“

— Audre Lorde, book The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997, p. 13.

Success, Motivational, For Team, For women

„Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.“

— Ed Warren American paranormal investigator, demonologist, exorcist, ghost hunter 1926 - 2006

God, People

„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

Success

„When we long for life without difficulty,
remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure.“

— Peter Marshall American preacher 1902 - 1949

Life

„My brain is only a receiver. In the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.“

— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943

Secret, Knowledge, Universe

„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

Faith, Peaceful

„I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.“

— Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964

Love, Making love

„How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?“

— Charles Bukowski, book Factotum

Source: Factotum

Hell, Fight, Money

„I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger.
Bob Marley (March 1981)“

— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

Time

„If we had remained in Pakistan, it would be a strong country. Again, if India had not been divided in 1947, it would be an even stronger country. But, then, Mr. President, in life do we always get what we desire?“

— 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
Quote, Other

Life, Country

„The people's community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy. Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. The sin of liberal thinking was to overlook socialism’s nation-building strengths, thereby allowing its energies to go in anti-national directions.“

— 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

Life, War, Freedom, Communication

„Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger.“

— Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964

Personality, Life, Time, Making love

„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.“

— 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.

Love

„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

Life, Hope, Courage

„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

Suicide, Night

„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

Love

„Today is filled with anger, fueled with hidden hate.
Scared of being outkast, afraid of common fate.
Today is build on tragedies which no one want's to face.
Nightmares to humanity and morally disgraced.
Tonight is filled with Rage, violence in the air.
Children bred with ruthlessness cause no one at home cares.
Tonight I lay my head down but the pressure never stops,
knowing that my sanity content when I'm droped.
But tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new,
build on spirit intent of heart and ideas based on truth.
Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride.
I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Hate, Fate, Children, Truth

„Beat it, beat it,
No-one wants to be defeated,
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight,
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right.
Just beat it.“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

Thriller (1982)

Fight

„If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply;
Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by.
Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly.
Fly high, my baby bird,
My angel, my only“

— Louis Sachar, book Holes

Source: Holes

Angels, Bird, Wolf, Sun

„Be Prepared in Mind by having disciplined yourself to be obedient to every order, and also by having thought out beforehand any accident or situation that might occur, so that you know the right thing to do at the right moment, and are willing to do it.

Be Prepared in Body by making yourself strong and active and able to do the right thing at the right moment, and do it.“

— 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

„When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become… as strong as they can be.“

— Masashi Kishimoto, book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 21: Pursuit

People

„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

World

„The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.“

— H.P. Lovecraft American author 1890 - 1937

Fear

„whatever you think that you will be.
if you think yourself weak, weak you will be;
if you think yourself strong, you will be“

— Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902

Thinking

„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

Faith

„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.

Knowledge

„I am strong. I lived through a divorce, separation from my family. I never let it break me down. I’m not an alcoholic. I’ve never smoked, I’ve never done drugs. I’ve floated through the disaster of my past clean. I arrived here undamaged.“

— 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

Alcohol, Family, Past

„It has always been the particular forte of German leadership to grant wide scope to the self-dependence of subordinate commanders - to allot them tasks which leave the method of execution to the discretion of the individual. From time immemorial - certainly since the elder Moltke's day - this principle has distinguished Germany's military leadership from that of other armies.“

— Erich von Manstein German general 1887 - 1973

Describing Mission Command, Lost Victories, The Winter Campaign In South Russia

Time, Dependency

„I write and leave behind me this letter at St. Petersburg. I feel that I shall leave life before January 1st. I wish to make known to the Russian people, to Papa, to the Russian Mother and to the children, to the land of Russia, what they must understand. If I am killed by common assassins, and especially by my brothers the Russian peasants, you, Tsar of Russia, have nothing to fear, remain on your throne and govern, and you, Russian Tsar, will have nothing to fear for your children, they will reign for hundreds of years in Russia. But if I am murdered by boyars, nobles, and if they shed my blood, their hands will remain soiled with my blood, for twenty-five years they will not wash their hands from my blood. They will leave Russia. Brothers will kill brothers, and they will kill each other and hate each other, and for twenty-five years there will be no noblers in the country. Tsar of the land of Russia, if you hear the sound of the bell which will tell you that Grigory has been killed, you must know this: if it was your relations who have wrought my death then no one of your family, that is to say, none of your children or relations will remain alive for more than two years. They will be killed by the Russian people…I shall be killed. I am no longer among the living. Pray, pray, be strong, think of your blessed family.“

— Grigori Rasputin Russian mystic 1869 - 1916

Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916

Life, Death, Hate, Children

„One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100 000 who have only interests. “

— Anders Behring Breivik Norwegian mass murderer 1979

Personality

„True love is so strong and at the same time confusing to understand—Perhaps, the force that move the planets is the same force that moves two lovers. Only God knows!“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

God, Time, Understanding, Lovers

„We must, at once re-educate the next generation not to fall prey to this lowly level of thinking. Thus, making them strong enough to survive the next episode of life.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Thinking, Education, Life

„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 indestructible.“

— 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

Love, Heart

„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

Women

„To be a vegetarian is to disagree — to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars — we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it’s a strong one.“

— 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.

Hunger, War, World, Thinking

„The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.“

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

Change

„Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.“

— B.K.S. Iyengar, book Light on Yoga

Source: Light on Yoga

Love, Courage

„A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.“

— 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

For women

„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.“

— 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.

Imagination, Learning, Animals

„Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.“

— Dale Carnegie American writer and lecturer 1888 - 1955

Knowledge

„Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.“

— Wassily Kandinsky Russian painter 1866 - 1944

Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Soul

„Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.“

— Alain de Botton Swiss writer 1969

Love

„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

For Team, Back To Work

„Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.“

— John Mayer guitarist and singer/songwriter 1977

Smile, Sense, Tear, Perfection

„LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!“

— Leonard Ravenhill British writer 1907 - 1994

„To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.“

— Joan Didion American writer 1934

„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

Heart Touching, Business

„The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.“

— Woodrow Wilson American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921) 1856 - 1924

„Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most.“

— Christina Dodd American writer 1957

Source: A Well Pleasured Lady

Love, Confidence, Thinking, Suffering

„The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.“

— Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Saint, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) 1491 - 1556

No. 325.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

Nature, Rage, Heart

„Respect the beliefs of other people, so your faith remains strong.“

— Youssef Bey Karam Lebanese rebel 1823 - 1889

Youssef Bey Karam Foundation

People, Faith

„How great a joy I feel in my heart. That a day so pleasant, so dear and glorious begins, a day that I greet with the wish. That long years may pass in happiness. In health and vigour, peacefully, successfully. May the gift of heaven fall richly upon you“

— Frédéric Chopin Polish composer 1810 - 1849

As quoted in his letter to his father, dated December 6th 1817[citation needed]

Health, Feeling, Heart, Joy

„You’re in total isolation. And you don’t know how long you’re going to be there, but you truly believe they can do anything to you. There’s no way to even question it. You’re not protected by anything. Why am I here? Your mind is very uncertain of time. You become like mad. It’s very hard for anyone. Even for people who have strong beliefs.“

— Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957

2010-, The City: Beijing, 2011

People, Way, Question, Time

„Almost from the time of Xavier's actual presence on the Coast, the work of legend-building began, and it came to be firmly believed that he possessed miraculous powers, which extended even to the raising of the dead. Xavier never made such extravagant claims for himself.“

— 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.

Time, Dead

„I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women. My work, both visually and musically, is a rejection of all those things. And most importantly a quest.“

— 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.

Women, Beauty, Music, Way

„No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.“

— 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

Life, People

„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)

Love

„This whole Jewish world, comprising a single exploiting sect, a kind of blood sucking people, a kind of organic destructive collective parasite, going beyond not only the frontiers of states, but of political opinion, this world is now, at least for the most part, at the disposal of Marx on the one hand, and of Rothschild on the other… This may seem strange. What can there be in common between socialism and a leading bank? The point is that authoritarian socialism, Marxist communism, demands a strong centralisation of the state. And where there is centralisation of the state, there must necessarily be a central bank, and where such a bank exists, the parasitic Jewish nation, speculating with the Labour of the people, will be found.“

— 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.

People, World, Communication, Parting

„[about Nothing Else Matters] James always wanted to be perceived as this guy who is very confident and strong. And for him to write lyrics like that - showing a sensitive side - took a lot of balls.“

— Kirk Hammett American musician 1962

Playboy (April 2001)

Guy, Confidence

„Religionists have kept their followers in line by suppressing their egos. By making their followers feel inferior, the awesomeness of their god is insured. Satanism encourages its members to develop a good strong ego because it gives them the self-respect necessary for a vital existence in this life. If a person has been vital throughout his life and has fought to the end for his earthly existence, it is this ego which will refuse to die, even after the expiration of the flesh which housed it. Young children are to be admired for their driving enthusiasm for life. This is exemplified by the small child who refuses to go to bed when there is something exciting going on, and when once put to bed, will sneak down the stairs to peek through the curtain and watch. It is this child-like vitality that will allow the Satanist to peek through the curtain of darkness and death and remain earthbound.“

— Anton LaVey, book The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible (1969)

Life, Death, God, Children

„Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia — each one he could have conquered individually — these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.“

— Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946

To Leon Goldensohn (24 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)

War, Fight, Forgetting

„It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.“

— Charles Spurgeon British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834 - 1892

The Soul-Winner (1895)

Passion

„The vain and weak see a judge in everyone; the proud and strong know no judge other than themselves.“

— 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

„Hold all and wait.
The questions that are in one’s mind will be worked out eventually without a word from the Master.
The light becomes stronger and the darkness vanishes in the reorganization of the inner man and his thinking processes and habits.
Do not make the mistake of trying to fit the teachings of ECK into the old ways of thinking.
Drop all and start over again.“

— Paul Twitchell American writer 1909 - 1971

Way, Question, Thinking, Light

„I like criticism. It makes you strong.“

— LeBron James American basketball player 1984

Making love, Motivational, Deep, Happy

„Minister Dilma Rousseff has a strong personality, a male side in the way in which she stamps her management.“

— Dilma Rousseff 36th President of Brazil 1947

Gilberto Gil, Minister of Culture (2003–2008). IstoeÉ magazine, December 28, 2005.

Way, Personality

„I don't think we have a right to take the people who raised us, who made us strong and healthy, and toss them away like a can of beer.“

— 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.

Thinking, People, Beer

„Although I'm big and strong I've never touched a women“

— #1 Broncos Fan

Women

„A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche, book On the Genealogy of Morality

Essay 3, Aphorism 16
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)

„Shadows in shadows
He watches through
dreams
Wings black as Africa
Body strong as stone
Done waiting
The ravens call.“

— Kristin Cast, book Hunted

Source: Hunted

Dreams, Waiting

„Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.“

— Harriet Tubman African-American abolitionist and humanitarian 1820 - 1913

World, Dreams, Star, Passion

„Stark looked strong and healthy and totally gorgeous. I was distracting myself by wondering what exactly Scottish guys did, or didn't, wear under those kilts when he turned to face me.
His smile lit up his eyes. "I can practically hear you thinking.“

— Kristin Cast, book Awakened

Source: Awakened

Smile, Guy, Thinking

„A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.“

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

Presidency (1977–1981), 1977

Help, Personality

„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

„Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.“

— 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)

Motivational, Deep, Back To Work

„What I need… is a strong drink and a peer group.“

— Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

Drink

„You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.“

— Linda Sue Park, book When My Name Was Keoko

Source: When My Name Was Keoko

Silence

„Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.“

— 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.

Beauty, Soul, Nature

„No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.“

— Dogen Japanese Zen buddhist teacher 1200 - 1253

„Better to be strong than pretty and useless.“

— Lilith Saintcrow, book Strange Angels

Source: Strange Angels

For women

„If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, the women together ought to be able to turn back and get it right side up again! and now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.“

— Sojourner Truth African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist 1797 - 1883

Ain't I a Woman? Speech (1851)

Women, Men, God, World

„Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man’s will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.“

— Patrick Rothfuss, book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 86, “The Fire Itself” (pp. 672-673)

Love, Men, Tear, Light

„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)

„Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.“

— 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

For Team

„Sorrow comes in great waves… but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.“

— Henry James American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843 - 1916