Strength Quotes

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

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"Great minds are always formed by the discipline of adversity."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"I have something in my breast that ever has been, and ever will be, a man—a something that ever has been, and ever will be, my nature."
Laurence Sterne
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"Strength is born from our struggles and refined through our suffering."
Laurence Sterne
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"A man's character is revealed not in success but in adversity."
Laurence Sterne
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"The strength of character is tested in moments of solitude."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Our limitations are often invitations to transcend ourselves."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Character is revealed not in triumph, but in how we face adversity."
Ann Radcliffe
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"True strength is only found in the ability to forgive."
Stendhal
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong in the broken places."
Stendhal
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"The measure of true character is how one behaves in adversity."
Frances Burney
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"The essence of strength is gentleness wisely applied."
Frances Burney
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"Adversity reveals the true nature of the spirit."
Frances Burney
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"Poverty may deprive a man of many luxuries, but not of virtue."
Henry Fielding
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"A man must be master of his own thoughts."
Henry Fielding
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"A noble spirit rises above adversity."
Henry Fielding
"The greatest strength is in gentleness."
Daniel Defoe
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"The greatest evil that can befall man is to lose the faculty of reason."
Jonathan Swift
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"Great men have great faults."
Jonathan Swift
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"The strength of the mind is greater than the strength of the body."
Laurence Sterne
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"To know one's weakness is to know one's strength."
Laurence Sterne
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"The measure of strength is not in power over others, but in mastery of self."
Ann Radcliffe
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"The true test of character comes not in comfort, but in adversity."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Strength that knows when not to act is wisdom in its highest form."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Great abilities are not shown by doing easy work, but by doing hard work easily."
Samuel Johnson
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"The true conquest is when a man subdues himself."
Samuel Johnson
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"I have received a blow that has staggered me very much."
Frances Burney
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"To suffer without complaint is the mark of true gentility."
Frances Burney
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"I believe that adversity builds character in ways prosperity never can."
Frances Burney
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"The most dangerous enemy is often the one we fail to recognize."
Henry Fielding
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"The greatest strength lies in admitting one's own weaknesses."
Henry Fielding