Quotes

Lois Lowry photo

“Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.”

Variant: Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.
Source: Gathering Blue

“Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.”

p 69 - Book one: The winds of change - The web of illusion
Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980)

Laurie Halse Anderson photo

“Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

Prevale photo

“You are stronger than your difficulties. Much stronger.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Sei più forte delle tue difficoltà. Molto più forte.
Source: prevale.net

Abraham Lincoln photo

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Pearl S.  Buck photo
Ovid photo

“Nothing is stronger than habit.”
Nil adsuetudine maius.

Variant translation: Nothing is more powerful than custom.
Book II, line 345
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)

Tupac Shakur quote: “Fear is stronger than love.”
Tupac Shakur photo

“Fear is stronger than love.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

John Wooden quote: “There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”
John Wooden photo

“There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

Quintus Curtius Rufus photo

“Habit is stronger than nature.”
Consuetudo natura potentior est.

Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian

V, 5, 21.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book V

Martin Luther photo
Ro Khanna photo

“Our demand for the Green New Deal must be stronger than fossil fuel lobbyists. Our demand for Medicare for All must be stronger than Big Pharma lobbyists. Our demand for Net Neutrality must be stronger than ISP lobbyists.”

Ro Khanna (1976) U.S. Representative from California

Source: Twitter post https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1078674235495796736 (28 December 2018)

Hesiod photo
Victor Hugo photo

“There are things stronger than the strongest man…”

Source: Les Misérables

James Doolittle photo

“There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.”

James Doolittle (1896–1993) United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient
Thomas Mann photo

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”

Variant: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives sweet thoughts. And from love and sweetness alone can form come: form and civilization.
Context: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives kind thoughts.

Melissus of Samos photo

“…nothing is stronger than true reality.”

Melissus of Samos (-470–-430 BC) Eleatic philosopher

Fragments of Melissus's On Nature, Fragment 8

James A. Garfield photo

“Right reason is stronger than force.”

James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)