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“Our passion is our strength”

Green Day

“Hardness shatters; strength endures.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

“Past tears are present strength.”

George MacDonald book Phantastes

Source: Phantastes

“We are one another's strength.”

T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader

On mutual relationships - "Hope Awakens For The Forsaken" https://archive.is/20130628101823/www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4113238-hope-awakens-for-forsaken All Voices (September 8 2009)

“Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.”

Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States

In support of John Kerry at the Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA, July 26, 2004
2000s

“Strength is Life, Weakness is death.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

“It takes incredible strength to be vulnerable. ”

Jennifer Morrison (1979) American actress, model, film producer

“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”

Phil Jackson (1945) basketball player and coach from the United States

“Silence is a source of great strength.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

“This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

“America's strength doesn't come from lashing out. Strength relies on smarts, judgment, cool resolve, and the precise and strategic application of power.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)

“Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Sir Robert Chiltern, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“"Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
"Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Three: Words Misunderstood

“Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.”

Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido

The Art of Peace (1992)

“A scar is a sign of strength… the sign of a survivor.”

Laurie Halse Anderson book Chains

Source: Chains

“It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist