Strength Quotes

Not just muscle and might, but the inner resolve that carries people through impossible situations.

31459 quotes

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"The most dangerous thing in the world is a woman who knows her own worth."
Celia St. James
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"The world wasn't kind to me. So I learned to be unkind back."
Celia St. James
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"Strength lies not in the body but in the soul."
Edmond Dantès
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"I have endured incalculable fatigue, and cold, and hunger"
The Creature
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"I am not a monster; I am a man."
The Creature
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"I'm not like her. I can't be."
Laila
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"She had never thought of herself as strong until she had no choice but to be."
Laila
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"The stronger you become, the more you realize how little strength matters."
Laila
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"You have within you, right now, the strength to move mountains."
Marcus Aurelius
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"The way to the abyss is inward, and only from within can you emerge whole."
Marcus Aurelius
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"The headmistress was a formidable woman"
Matilda Wormwood
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"You have within you right now everything you need to respond to whatever the world throws at you."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Your limitations are your gifts. Work within them to develop your character."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Comrade, you are rotting away. You are falling to pieces."
O'Brien
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"Always in your stomach and in your skin there is a sort of protest."
Winston Smith
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"Goodness is not enough. We have to be strong."
O'Brien
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"Alone—free—the human being is always defeated."
O'Brien
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"They can torture you, they can kill you, but they cannot change your heart unless you let them."
Winston Smith
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"Men are infinitely malleable. As the Party remolds them they become new beings."
O'Brien
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"A man is his own most dangerous enemy."
O'Brien
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"It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."
Winston Smith
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"You are a slow learner, Winston."
O'Brien
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"Alone—free—the mind needs exercising constantly, or it grows weak."
Winston Smith
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"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much soul as any of you!"
Jane Eyre
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"My good qualities are under your protection."
Mr. Darcy
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"This is my living arm, and this is my living self."
Captain Ahab
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"It was a fair contest, and a contest with her was like nothing I ever knew."
Pip
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"There is a kind of nobility in all adversity"
The Narrator
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"How can the small powers of human nature meet such demands upon it"
The Narrator
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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer"
The Narrator