Strength Quotes

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

31459 quotes

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"Behold, I stand here willing to suffer without complaint."
Hester Prynne
R
"I wanted to overstep the line, and I could not resist"
Raskolnikov
D
"A poor man's wealth is in his honor."
Don Quixote
S
"Strength comes from within the spirit."
Sancho Panza
L
"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Levin
L
"Strength does not come from winning."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Sancho Panza
L
"The greatest battles are fought within ourselves."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Every moment of life is a choice between surrender and struggle."
Don Quixote
D
"The mind is willing but the flesh is weak."
Dunya
L
"There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
L
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"I am not to be bought"
Hester Prynne
D
"Strength lies not in the body but in the spirit."
Don Quixote
D
"Passion can lead to either salvation or damnation."
Dmitri Karamazov
A
"The greatest victory is not over our enemies, but over ourselves."
Abbé Faria
J
"There is no greater power than the power to forgive."
Jean Valjean
S
"The greatest strength is to admit one's weakness"
Sonya
E
"I have been in the depths of despair, and I have emerged triumphant."
Edmond Dantès
E
"Every scar tells a story of survival."
Edmond Dantès
J
"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."
Jean Valjean
E
"What a miserable thing to be a woman!"
Emma Bovary
P
"Man is a creature who can get accustomed to anything!"
Pierre Bezukhov
E
"I have learned to believe in nothing but myself."
Edmond Dantès
G
"She mistook sentiment for strength, weakness for love"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
G
"She had wanted to transcend her circumstances but lacked the strength to do so"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
R
"The weak are crushed by the weight of existence."
Raskolnikov
N
"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."
Nick Carraway
N
"Forgiveness is the highest form of strength."
Natasha Rostova
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"I understand now that true power lies not in the ability to commit crimes, but in the capacity to forgive"
Raskolnikov