Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice."
Strength quotes
Strength
958 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength."
Haile Selassie
Emperor
"History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity."
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
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"The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life."
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"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."
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"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
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"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid."
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"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one"
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"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him."
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"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society."
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"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."
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"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
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"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
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"The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave."
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"Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man."
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"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
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"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
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