Strength Quotes

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

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"Strength grows in the moments when you think you can't go on but you keep going anyway."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
"I am the wound and the knife; I am the slap and the cheek."
Charles Baudelaire
"We are all capable of bearing hardships if we choose."
Charles Baudelaire
"The weak yield to circumstance; the strong reshape it."
Charles Baudelaire
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"The strength of a person is measured not in what they achieve, but in what they endure."
Paul Verlaine
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"The scars we carry are the marks of our survival and our strength."
Paul Verlaine
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"The human spirit is both fragile and unbreakable."
Gérard de Nerval
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"True strength lies in embracing the darkness within."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"True strength lies in gentleness."
Paul Verlaine
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"Strength revealed through gentleness is the deepest strength."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Strength is the ability to hold opposing truths simultaneously."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The strength of a person is measured by their ability to overcome adversity."
Théophile Gautier
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"True strength lies not in dominance, but in the ability to endure."
Théophile Gautier
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"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Strength does not come from what you can do; it comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"The strength of character lies in overcoming our own weaknesses"
Guy de Maupassant
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"Strength is not shown in muscles but in the ability to forgive"
Guy de Maupassant
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
George Sand
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
George Sand
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"Strength and wisdom are not opposing values."
George Sand
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"True strength is not in dominion, but in understanding."
George Sand
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"To feel deeply is to bleed into the world."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The greatest strength lies in acknowledging our weakness."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The greatest strength lies in acknowledging one's weakness."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The strongest people are often those who have learned to be gentle."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"I shall take action against my will, commands and prayers."
Stendhal
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"To be strong is to be alone."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Strength lies not in force, but in will."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"We are all slaves to our passions until we master them."
Théophile Gautier
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"The spirit of man is stronger than any circumstance."
Théophile Gautier