Strength Quotes

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

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"Difference and diversity are sources of strength when justice frameworks make space for all."
Young, Iris Marion
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"We are shaped by social forces but not determined by them; we retain capacity to resist and imagine otherwise."
Young, Iris Marion
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"We overestimate our ability to resist temptation."
Ariely, Dan
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"The effort of self-control is like a muscle that gets tired."
Ariely, Dan
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"Our greatest strengths often emerge from our greatest vulnerabilities."
Ariely, Dan
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"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't."
Pollock, John
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"Strength is not about how much you can handle before you break. It's about how much you can handle after you have already broken."
Pollock, John
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"Self-control is a limited resource. The more we use it, the more depleted we become."
Thaler, Richard
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"We overestimate our ability to resist temptation. Willpower is weaker than we believe."
Thaler, Richard
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"Strength is revealed not in conquest, but in compassion."
Lehrer, Keith
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"Strength is staying true when it would be easier to yield."
Lehrer, Keith
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"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't."
BonJour, Laurence
B
"The only way to gain strength is by your struggle."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Willpower is not unlimited; we deplete it through decision-making."
Kahneman, Daniel
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"Strength grows through facing challenges"
Goldman, Alvin
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"Strength is not the absence of doubt"
Goldman, Alvin
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"Uncertainty is not weakness; denying it is."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"The ability to live with uncertainty is a sign of maturity, not weakness."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"The mind grows in darkness as much as in light; do not fear your shadows."
Pollock, John
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"What seems like a limitation today can become your signature strength tomorrow."
Pollock, John
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"To be vulnerable is to be powerful in ways the armored can never be."
Pollock, John
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"The greatest strength is knowing when to be hard and when to be soft."
Pollock, John
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"True strength lies in vulnerability, not in the absence of it."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Strength grows in the places where we've been broken."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Intellectual virtue requires the courage to admit what you do not know."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Uncertainty is not a weakness—denying it is."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"Our limitations are often self-imposed."
Williamson, Timothy
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"Strength is not measured by physical prowess, but by moral character."
Williamson, Timothy
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"Every person has infinite potential within them."
Williamson, Timothy
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"True strength lies in vulnerability and the willingness to be wrong."
Lehrer, Keith