Strength Quotes

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

31459 quotes

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"Strength comes from acceptance"
Allen Ginsberg
"You don't have to be ashamed of asking for help. The person you ask for help is the strongest person around."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Joseph Heller
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"Strength is not the absence of weakness, but its acceptance."
Joseph Heller
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"Strength is the ability to stand alone."
Joseph Heller
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"Strength comes from within."
William S. Burroughs
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"The strength of a nation is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
Norman Mailer
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"Strength is not the absence of fear; it is action despite fear."
Norman Mailer
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"If you're going to be a heretic, be a great one"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Your fear is the doorway to your power"
Allen Ginsberg
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"The most important thing is to maintain control of your own narrative."
William S. Burroughs
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"Strength comes from within."
William Carlos Williams
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"Walking on water wasn't built in a day."
Jack Kerouac
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"The hardest battle is to be nobody but yourself"
e.e. cummings
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"I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul."
Hart Crane
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"Strength lies in gentleness."
Hart Crane
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
J.D. Salinger
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"The strength to persist comes from knowing why the work matters."
William Carlos Williams
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"Strength comes from vulnerability not invulnerability"
Allen Ginsberg
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"True strength lies in the ability to admit weakness"
Allen Ginsberg
"One must be a master of the weather in order to live."
Wallace Stevens
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
Wallace Stevens
"One must be one's own angel."
Wallace Stevens
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"I am convinced that there is nothing stronger than the human spirit."
Jack Kerouac
"Self-reliance is like a uniform: each man must cut his own."
Marianne Moore
"Nothing is accomplished by force unless it is backed by tenderness."
Marianne Moore
"I would like to be made of iron."
Marianne Moore
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"The mind has shown itself capable of enduring absolutely anything that can happen to it."
Hart Crane
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"The strength to continue is all that is required."
Hart Crane
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"Strength comes from within."
Hilda Doolittle