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Quotes About Strength

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
~ Meryl Streep
No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
~ Louis Brandeis
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.
~ Sidney J. Phil
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.
~ Agnes Macphail
Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
~ Epictetus
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.
~ Marcus Aurelius
There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
~ Samuel Lover
Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry!
~ Valentine Blacker
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
~ Clementine Paddleford
A man is a lion in his own cause.
~ Scottish Proverb
For they can conquer who believe they can.
~ Virgil
Don't give up the ship!
~ James Lawrence
Keep breathing.
~ Sophie Tucker
Don't let go of the vine.
~ John Weissmuller
The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.
~ Mao TseTung
When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement, it is a sign that it should be rejected.
~ Vauvenargues
When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
~ Winston Churchill