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Quotes About Strength

Courage in war is safer than cowardice.
~ Proverb
Rain and wind speak more than just water and air— Rain patters hope Wind whispers let go...
~ Terri Guillemets
Wind tries to show Tree how to run wild. Tree: "I cannot leave this place." Wind: "Then let's dance."
~ Terri Guillemets
Fire tests metal, wine tests men.
~ Japanese Proverb
A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.
~ Gina Carey, unverified
A flirt is as strong as her weakest wink.
~ Author Unknown
Worry whomps and wails on weary souls.
~ Terri Guillemets
A Taurus works hard… and sleeps harder.
~ Jim Davis
Internet meme
~ RBG, y'all!
Notorious RBG: You can't handle the Ruth.
~ Internet meme
This, then, is the state of the Union: Free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all,— By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
~ John Dickinson, 1768
Been down so long, down don't worry me.
~ African-American saying
The broken heart is broadest.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1881
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar always means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
~ Harry Crews, Scar Lover, 1992
I don't think then of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
~ Anne Frank, March 1944
Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
~ William Faulkner
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry, spiritual by what we can bear.
~ Author Unknown
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
~ Author Unknown
Aesop, "The Bundle of Sticks"
~ In unity there is strength.
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
~ African Proverb
Never give up trying, wherever you may be, and whatever may be the threatening ills which rise against you. What if gods and men and the whole world oppose you? There is always some place where the soul can be itself. There is no defeat except from within... There is no power either in heaven or earth that can successfully oppose the onward course of the perfectly determined soul.
~ Robert Burns Wilson, 1887
Let us be like that unafraid bird Lighted upon a twig that swings Feeling it yield but singing on— For knowing that he has wings!
~ Victor Hugo
The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.
~ African Proverb