Strength Quotes

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

31459 quotes

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"Self-control is the strength. When you can command yourself, you command the world."
Dorian Gray
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"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
Jane Eyre
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"The tyrant grinds down his slaves with cruelty that trashy nature permits; but a nature like mine gets tired of acting a farce."
Heathcliff
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"I see in him outrageous strength with an inscrutable malice sinewing it."
Captain Ahab
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"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
Jane Eyre
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"I have something in my brain and heart after all."
Jane Eyre
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"I have never given myself away, even in the midst of temptation."
Dorian Gray
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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I am strong and am glad—I should be ashamed to feel otherwise."
Cathy Linton
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"Such abuse had long since hardened me against contempt."
Heathcliff
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"There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair"
The Narrator
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"Aye, there is something in thee, some unconquerable wilfulness."
Starbuck
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"I'm stronger than she was."
Cathy Linton
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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"To yield readily—easily—to the persuasion of a friend is no merit."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I see in him outrageous strength with an inscrutable malice sinewing it"
Captain Ahab
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"Do not suppose me mad. I shall not harm her"
Sydney Carton
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"All is lost except the will to endure"
The Narrator
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"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!"
Jane Eyre
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"The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
Jane Eyre
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"Do you think I am an automaton? a machine without feelings?"
Jane Eyre
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"Woman's strength and woman's weakness were made known to me."
Hester Prynne
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"I am strong, and I think of him day and night."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"I am not going to suffer unless it is of consequence."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"True strength lies in gentleness."
Joe Gargery
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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, we're the same."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"I'm not cruel, only strong."
Heathcliff
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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."
Jane Eyre
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"It would be a poor thing to be at the command of the moment and not master of yourself."
Joe Gargery