Strength Quotes

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

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"The New England character is one of restraint that masks an inner fire."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"What we consider weakness in others is often unrecognized strength."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"A woman's silence is often not consent but strategy."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Strength is often found in the quiet persistence of those the world has overlooked."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"What society calls selfishness, a woman might call self-preservation."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"A woman who knows her own mind is a woman the world cannot break."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"A grown woman should allow herself to be angry very bloody angry at times."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The ability to feel deeply is a gift, not a weakness."
Fannie Hurst
"Strength is knowing when to bend and when to break."
Fannie Hurst
"Strength shows itself in vulnerability as much as action."
Fannie Hurst
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"Strength is found in the willingness to be authentic."
Amy Lowell
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"True strength lies in vulnerability and honest expression."
Amy Lowell
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"The strongest man is he who admits his weakness and grows from it."
O. Henry
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"Each man's greatest asset is his own person."
Jack London
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"Strength is born in the crucible of suffering."
Jack London
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"The greatest strength lies in refusing to conform when conformity means losing oneself."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"To be a human being is to be in the thick of all the forces of life; no one can hide and no one can do nothing."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The weakness of humanity is not in any lack of power but in the failure to use the powers it has."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The strength of a civilization is measured by what its average citizen possesses and can accomplish."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Strength is not the absence of pain, but the refusal to be defeated by it."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Life demands of us all things at once, and few possess the strength to navigate its complexities."
Kate Chopin
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"The strongest among us are often those who have learned to forgive."
Kate Chopin
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"Strength is not the absence of vulnerability; it is wisdom in when to reveal it."
Kate Chopin
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
Fannie Hurst
"A woman's power lies not in her appearance but in her mind."
Fannie Hurst
"The human spirit is capable of extraordinary resilience."
Fannie Hurst
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"The strength of a nation is in the health of its people."
Upton Sinclair
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"Strength comes not from domination, but from compassion."
Upton Sinclair