Strength Quotes

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

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"Pain has an Element of Blank, let me anaesthetize the Soul."
Emily Dickinson
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"A wounded Deer leaps highest."
Emily Dickinson
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"The greatest intensity is always the quietest."
Henry James
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"The power of the mind is the only power that truly matters."
Henry James
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"The human character is stronger than any circumstance."
Henry James
"The thunder of his fall falls harmless on the adamantine slopes of indifference."
Mark Twain
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"There is a power in truthfulness that cannot be resisted by deceit."
Herman Melville
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"To keep the heart unwounded is the great secret of life."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Men are not noble by birth; they become noble through their actions."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Strength is acquired only through the acceptance of pain."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Strength comes from within."
Romain Rolland
"Strength is revealed in adversity."
Romain Rolland
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"It is well that the world should see that we are not afraid."
Anatole France
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"The greatest strength is admitting what we do not know."
François Mauriac
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"The world breaks everyone; some become stronger at the broken places"
Henry James
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"The greatest strength is to appear weak when you are strong"
Henry James
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"Strength is found not in dominion over others, but in mastery of oneself"
Henry James
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."
Marcel Proust
"Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty."
André Gide
"The thing that makes you exceptional is the same thing that makes you vulnerable."
André Gide
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"It may be that a man's heart has only a limited quantity of passion to expend."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Temptation can become virtue if one is strong enough."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The greatest strength lies in admitting one's weaknesses."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Strength is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."
Romain Rolland
"Strength comes from the union of weakness and determination."
Romain Rolland
"Strength multiplies when shared."
Romain Rolland
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"Forgiveness is not weakness; it is the ultimate strength."
François Mauriac
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"The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed by the human body, but it can be wounded most grievously."
Anatole France
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"Strength is not the absence of fear but the presence of will."
Anatole France