Strength Quotes

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

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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong in the broken places."
Anton Chekhov
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"The measure of a man is not what he accomplishes, but what he endures."
Anton Chekhov
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"Strength does not come from winning."
George Bernard Shaw
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"A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground."
William Butler Yeats
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"I became a woman and found it good."
William Butler Yeats
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"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
William Butler Yeats
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"The heart is sometimes in need of self-discipline."
Thomas Hardy
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"Strength comes from facing our fears."
Thomas Hardy
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"Your strength is your character."
Thomas Hardy
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
Oscar Wilde
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"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
Oscar Wilde
"The world breaks everyone and afterward we are strong."
Samuel Beckett
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"Write your name on your heart rather than on marble."
James Joyce
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"The strength to endure is the strength to transform."
James Joyce
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"If you look back on what you wished to be yet strived to become, you build character."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Strength comes not from what you have, but from what you overcome."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The source of true gentleness is strength."
George Eliot
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"A man must learn to forgive himself."
Thomas Hardy
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"The world breaks everyone; afterward many are strong at the broken places."
Thomas Hardy
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"The eye is a window, but the heart is a fortress."
Thomas Hardy
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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
Thomas Hardy
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"The mind is often its own worst enemy."
Anne Brontë
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"I would not be thought subject to the weakness of suffering myself to be made a fool."
Anne Brontë
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"Inner strength is more valuable than physical power."
Anne Brontë
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"Strength grows through struggle."
Anne Brontë
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
William Butler Yeats
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"Stronger than a man, simpler than a child."
Emily Brontë
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"I am stronger because of my pain."
Emily Brontë
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"Sometimes our strength is not just our own."
Emily Brontë
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"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Emily Brontë