Strength Quotes
Not just muscle and might, but the inner resolve that carries people through impossible situations.
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"The strongest animal in any struggle is the one willing to lose everything."Cormac McCarthy
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through."Harper Lee
"Rapaciousness has no limit, but the human spirit is boundless."Saul Bellow
"The human form is weak, but the human spirit is strong."Saul Bellow
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."Norman Mailer
"Strength is not physical, but mental and emotional."Joseph Heller
"The things that are hard to endure are worth enduring."Cormac McCarthy
"Vulnerability is not weakness; it is the price of being human."Philip Roth
"Vulnerability is the only authentic form of strength."David Foster Wallace
"We are dying of comforts and amusements."Saul Bellow
"The strength to endure is greater than the strength to achieve."Saul Bellow
"Strength is not in the muscles but in the will to continue."Joseph Heller
"Strength is tested not in victory but in failure."Joseph Heller
"Strong feelings don't necessarily make a strong character."Philip Roth
"If a person can be said to have character, it is probably because they have said no to something."Norman Mailer
"Strength is not the absence of fear, but the refusal to be controlled by it."Norman Mailer
"You don't have to be ashamed of tears, my son. Rain is also water, you know."Kurt Vonnegut
"Rage is an energy."William S. Burroughs
"The real unendurable thing isn't the pain. It's the pain of not being able to escape the pain."David Foster Wallace
"You have to keep choosing the hard thing."David Foster Wallace
"The trick is to live without being destroyed by it."David Foster Wallace
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."Saul Bellow
"The world breaks everyone. Afterward, many are strong at broken places."Saul Bellow
"Strength is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."Joseph Heller
"Strength is knowing when not to fight."Joseph Heller
"Real maturity is when a person hurts and they do not strike back."Philip Roth
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong in the broken places."Philip Roth
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."Norman Mailer
"I am not here for your amusement."William S. Burroughs
"Western man is supposed to overcome his shadow."William S. Burroughs