Strength Quotes

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

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"I'm not cruel, only determined."
Heathcliff
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"You may boast of not having broken my heart—indeed you might have broke it."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Elizabeth Bennet
J
"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.—I have as much heart as any."
Jane Eyre
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"Take care of yourself, and mistrust everybody."
Edmond Dantès
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"I learned that strength comes from humility."
Pip
P
"Adversity reveals character in ways prosperity never can."
Pip
J
"I have learned that the heart that breaks is the heart that beats."
Jean Valjean
E
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Elizabeth Bennet
J
"Do you think I am an automaton? A machine without feelings?"
Jane Eyre
M
"Depend on it, you are sane because you are strong."
Mr. Rochester
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"I shall not be afraid of my own strength."
Jane Eyre
C
"In this world a man must either be hammer or anvil"
Captain Ahab
C
"I wear the badge of my scars as medals of honor"
Captain Ahab
J
"I would not change for all the treasures of the earth."
Jane Eyre
M
"There is a fire within her that burns bright"
Madame Defarge
A
"A man who has suffered much becomes accustomed to suffering."
Abbé Faria
C
"I try the frozen steel upon my fiery flesh."
Captain Ahab
J
"Whatever comes, I shall face it with a stout heart."
Joe Gargery
S
"In my solitude I find my strength"
Sydney Carton
S
"The greatest strength lies in accepting one's limitations."
St. John Rivers
M
"Forgiveness is the prerogative of the strong."
Mr. Rochester
E
"Strength lies not in muscles but in will."
Edmond Dantès
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"I will not lose the child, said Hester, with firm emphasis"
Hester Prynne
S
"Aye, he is more than a match for all the men on earth"
Starbuck
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"There is nothing more painful than to be conscious of your own weakness."
Pip
P
"I discovered the strength I did not know I possessed."
Pip
A
"The greatest strength lies in accepting one's fate."
Abbé Faria
D
"Mighty arms have I to use in my defence."
Don Quixote
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"A man can endure anything if it is his own choosing."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)