Strength Quotes
Not just muscle and might, but the inner resolve that carries people through impossible situations.
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"What we have discovered is that under the right circumstances, almost anyone will do almost anything."Stanley Milgram
"We are all potentially capable of the same degree of obedience or disobedience depending on the situation."Stanley Milgram
"The study raises the uncomfortable possibility that we are all capable of becoming instruments of harm."Stanley Milgram
"Do not be discouraged by your limitations. Use them."Alfred Adler
"A man who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a thousand men in battle."Alfred Adler
"The psychology of imprisonment reveals our capacity for both oppression and rebellion."Philip Zimbardo
"Moral courage means acting against systems even at great personal cost."Philip Zimbardo
"We underestimate the power of dissent because we overestimate the courage required to voice it."Solomon Asch
"To stand apart is to risk everything society promises to those who conform."Solomon Asch
"Authenticity is the most expensive luxury in a world that trades in conformity."Solomon Asch
"The truly courageous person is not the one who never doubts, but the one who doubts and acts anyway."Solomon Asch
"We are all prisoners of our need to belong, but some of us refuse to serve our sentence."Solomon Asch
"To question the group is to question the very foundations of your social existence."Solomon Asch
"We underestimate the cost of conformity because we overestimate the benefit."Solomon Asch
"The weather and my mood have little connection. I define myself by the life within me."Blaise Pascal
"The greatest strength is knowing one's weakness."Blaise Pascal
"Strength of character is developed through repeated conditioning."John B. Watson
"Self-control is simply the conditioning of one stimulus by another."John B. Watson
"We resist changing our minds not because we're stubborn, but because our minds are part of our identity."Leon Festinger
"We will go to extraordinary lengths to maintain our sense of who we are."Leon Festinger
"The mind is a fortress protecting the consistency of the self."Leon Festinger
"We will change our beliefs more readily than we will change our self-concept."Leon Festinger
"The drive to maintain a coherent sense of self is fundamental to human nature."Leon Festinger
"Our beliefs are not mere opinions; they are identity commitments."Leon Festinger
"Self-esteem comes from discipline"Dear Abby
"Strength is born from struggle"Dear Abby
"Strength is found in vulnerability"Dear Abby
"The softest thing in the world overcomes the hardest."Lao Tzu
"Silence is a source of great strength."Lao Tzu
"Knowing how to yield is knowing how to triumph."Lao Tzu