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Quotes About Strength

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
~ Samuel Johnson
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall.
~ Elvis Presley
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
~ Voltaire
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
~ Democritus
Just me and my nuts, that's all I got in this world.
~ Ludacris
We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.
~ Kenny Rogers
Optimism is my best defense.
~ Rod Stewart
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
~ Dorothy Day
You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
~ Kirk Douglas
Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.
~ Lou Reed
I am the captain of my pain.
~ Nick Cave
Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.
~ Ray Davies
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
~ Joyce Carol Oates, Mudwoman
Conquered people tend to be witty.
~ Saul Bellow
I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.
~ Alan Cohen
Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?
~ Bob Dylan