Strength Quotes

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

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"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us."
Margaret Atwood
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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."
Harper Lee
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"If you have to do something, you can do it."
Harper Lee
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"She was the bravest of them all, though she never took a gun to anyone."
Harper Lee
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"The struggle is real, but so is the strength within you to overcome it."
Harper Lee
"The world breaks everyone, but some become strong in the broken places"
Robertson Davies
"True strength lies in admitting weakness"
Robertson Davies
"Inner strength comes from facing your fears"
Robertson Davies
"You can't imagine what people are capable of. You can only know what you yourself are capable of."
Cormac McCarthy
"The world will break you, and if you're lucky it will break you in a way that makes you whole."
Cormac McCarthy
"Strength is not something you're born with. It's something you build."
Cormac McCarthy
"Strength is the ability to bear what cannot be changed."
Cormac McCarthy
"All sensitive people are capable of greatness."
Carson McCullers
"We are most human when we are vulnerable."
Carson McCullers
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"All serious daring starts from within."
Eudora Welty
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger at the broken places."
Eudora Welty
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"What we do in small moments defines our character in large ones."
Eudora Welty
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"Violence and passion are often intertwined in the human experience."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Strength is measured not by the absence of weakness but by how we manage it."
Joyce Carol Oates
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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."
Harper Lee
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"The main thing is, we shouldn't pay any attention to what people say about us."
Harper Lee
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"True strength lies not in never falling, but in rising each time you do."
Harper Lee
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"What is this madness of these modern days? A man can't even take his own part."
Saul Bellow
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
Saul Bellow
"A man's gifts make no allowance for his life."
Cormac McCarthy
"Your strength is measured by what you can endure, not what you can overcome."
Cormac McCarthy
"What binds these communities together is resilience."
Philip Roth
"The strongest people are often those who have known the deepest sorrow."
Carson McCullers
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"You've got to be hard to survive in this world on your own."
Flannery O'Connor
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"Strength is often found in gentleness."
Eudora Welty