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Strength Quotes

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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Wendell Willkie

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it only serves to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Henry Ward Beecher Life Thoughts (1858)

And, weaponless himself,
Made arms ridiculous.

John Milton Samson Agonistes (1671)

When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength.

Donald Trump

In that day's feats,
* * * * * *
He prov'd best man i' the field, and for his meed
Was brow-bound with the oak.

William Shakespeare

Their strength is to sit still.

Isaiah

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Marcus Aurelius

To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Resistance can breed resilience.

Hilton Als

The stronger always succeeds.

Plautus

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Arthur Miller Commenting on After the Fall (1964)

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

Bryan Magee Heidegger and Modern Existentialism (1977)

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.

Franklin Pierce

The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America's strength.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Bill Clinton

Today’s youth know very well where and how to use the strength in their arms and their knowledge.

Alisher Saʼdullayev

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

Tacitus

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form,grace, strength, compactness, and the harness and brilliance of a diamond.

Patañjali

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