Strength Quotes

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

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"The greatest victory is not to conquer others but to conquer oneself."
Edmond Dantès
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"The human heart is a fortress that cannot be taken by storm."
Monte Cristo
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"She was her own worst enemy."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The most difficult battles are fought within ourselves."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"I'm going to tell him the truth about himself—that he's worth the whole damn crowd put together."
Jay Gatsby
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"Self-control!"
Jay Gatsby
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"Well, then, I am neither God nor an angel, but simply a man who has suffered greatly."
Edmond Dantès
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"The mind is a powerful instrument that can create or destroy."
Abbé Faria
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"I have learned that true power lies not in taking revenge, but in forgiveness."
Edmond Dantès
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"I have no right to live if I cannot master my own nature."
Raskolnikov
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"Strength is tested in adversity."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"He mistook weakness for gentleness."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The stronger man is the one who stands alone"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Forgiveness is not weakness; it is strength."
Jean Valjean
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"The world is not made for the timid"
Monte Cristo
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"True strength lies in mercy"
Edmond Dantès
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"The only thing that's kept me from being a bum is that I've been too cowardly to commit suicide over it."
Tom Buchanan
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"She would have liked to be born a man."
Emma Bovary
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"The world breaks everyone, and some become strong in the broken places."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She was a masterpiece of her own destruction."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"I am strength incarnate when I have a purpose."
Monte Cristo
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"Strength of character surpasses physical strength."
Abbé Faria
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"The most difficult struggles are not external but internal."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The strongest man is he who knows his weakness."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The weak are crushed under the weight of the world."
Raskolnikov
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"The strongest prison is the one we build in our minds."
Abbé Faria
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"True strength lies in restraint and wisdom."
Monte Cristo
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"Ah, I'm going to be powerful after I drink this."
Jay Gatsby
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"A wounded heart is the strongest heart of all."
Fantine
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"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."
Atticus Finch