Strength Quotes

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

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"A thousand enemies outside the wall are less dangerous than one enemy within."
Maimonides
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"Strength is the ability to endure, not merely to conquer."
Maimonides
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"The strength of the mind lies in its ability to perceive the connections between all things."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"The power of thought lies in its ability to transcend the limitations of matter."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"True strength comes not from the absence of weakness, but from the mastery of it."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Each thing insofar as it is capable of being aided by external causes has the faculty of preserving itself in being."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The perfection of a thing is measured by its power of acting."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The more determined we are by our own nature, the freer and more powerful we become."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The mind has the power to overcome all obstacles."
Descartes, René
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"Anger is the enemy of right judgment."
Al-Ghazali
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"Envy consumes the envious as fire consumes wood."
Al-Ghazali
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"To master oneself is greater than to master a city."
Al-Ghazali
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"The strong person is not the one who defeats others, but the one who defeats himself."
Al-Ghazali
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"The greatest strength lies in knowing your weakness."
Avicenna
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"The strength of a person is measured not by what they can do but by what they choose not to do."
Avicenna
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"The strength of a chain is measured by its weakest link, as the strength of society by its neediest member."
Locke, John
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"Strength is not measured in the force of one's blow, but in the depth of one's conviction."
Locke, John
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"The strength of the mind should not be measured by its subtlety, but by its amplitude."
Hume, David
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"The strength of a person lies in their convictions."
Averroes
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"One who rules himself is greater than one who conquers a city."
Maimonides
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"Compassion is not a weakness; it is the highest strength."
Maimonides
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"Insofar as the mind understands all things as necessary, it has a certain power of determining the affections of the body."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The perfection of a thing is measured by its power of action."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The effort by which each thing strives to persevere in its being is the essence of that thing."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Strength is knowing what one truly wants."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Weakness is clinging to what diminishes us."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"One must harbor a certain toughness of spirit to function successfully in this world."
Descartes, René
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"What can shake a man if he has conquered himself?"
Descartes, René
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"Strength of character is built not in moments of comfort, but in times of adversity."
Avicenna
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"True strength lies not in the body, but in the mastery of one's desires."
Al-Ghazali