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Strength Quotes

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

– Comte de Lautreamont

I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.

– Nas

When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.

– Eric Fellner

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn’t build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

– Matteo Renzi

In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut track repetitions and hill repeats that buckle your knees – at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you’re willing to hurt to catch one more runner – you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.

– Don Kardong

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people’s desire for change.

– Eliot Spitzer

The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

– Michael Korda

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

– Eric Hoffer

Part of the strength that Charlie and I have as a team is we’ve been able to keep our priorities straight through our entire partnership. We’ve been able to maintain a life outside of skating, and though we’ve given up a lot of things and we’ve been training really hard our entire lives, we’ve been able to maintain great social lives.

– Meryl Davis

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

– Don King

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.

– Gijs de Vries

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

– Esai Morales

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan’s brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

– F. Sionil Jose

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

– Peter Marshall

I’m a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it’s not my strength.

– Denis Villeneuve

The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.

– Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

– George Herbert

I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.

– Dan Gable

I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it’s in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we’re so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message.

– Martin Heinrich

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

– Donella Meadows

It’s very easy to approach a character like that – a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds – and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.

– Mary Steenburgen

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

– Paul Cezanne

America’s strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.

– Mohsin Hamid

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

– Norman Schwarzkopf

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

– Maria Semple

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

– Felicia Hemans

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

– Meshell Ndegeocello

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

– Deepika Padukone

In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I’m feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them – simple but graphic.

– Felicity Jones

I can’t just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I’m going to take off for three months of my life.

– Emmanuelle Beart

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