Quotes about strength
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“For love is as strong as death.”

Source: Clockwork Prince

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“A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

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“I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

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“Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on.”

Variant: Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
Source: A Million Little Pieces

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“I have a strong will to love you for eternity.”

Source: Immortality

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“One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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“Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.”

Source: Foundation

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“I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Source: The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

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“The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.”

Source: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

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“He was all silver and ashes, not like Will's strong colors of blue and black and gold.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

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“I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

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“She was so tired of being strong.”

Source: The Nightingale

“Don't use such strong words. It'll only make you look weak.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 01

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“Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand
Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
The shattered fragments of my song will come
At last to finer melody in you;
That I may tell my heart that you begin
Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

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“Propriety's never been Adrian's strong suit.”

Source: The Indigo Spell

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“Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

"Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus" (1904)
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
As quoted in Florilegium, I.22, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 396
Florilegium

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“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: All the Sad Young Men

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John Irving photo
Anne Rice photo

“Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.”

Source: The Vampire Lestat

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“Q: So, why do you write these strong female characters?
A: Because you’re still asking me that question.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

"American Rhetoric: Joss Whedon - Equality Now Address" (15 May 2006) http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/josswhedonequalitynow.htm

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“The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with this interpretation of the crimes of the strong.”

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933), Chapter XVIII: The Study of the Negro<!-- p. 131 -->
Context: The chief reason why so many give such a little attention to the background of the Negro is the belief that this study is unimportant. They consider as history only such deeds as those of Mussolini who after building up an efficient war machine with the aid of other Europeans would now use it to murder unarmed and defenseless Africans who have restricted themselves exclusively to attending to their own business. If Mussolini succeeds in crushing Abyssinia he will be recorded in "history" among the Caesars, and volumes written in praise of the conqueror will find their way to the homes and libraries of thousands of miseducated Negroes. The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with this interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

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