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Quotes About Strength

Free will depends on being stronger than the moment that traps you.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I wish to know, said Claire. God help us, muttered Byron. I wish TO KNOW why all that ails mankind must be the fault of womankind? Women are weak, said Byron. Or perhaps men need to believe it is so, I said.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version.. Love is full strenght. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It was a dark gift but not a useless one.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.
~ Jeanette Winterson
El amor es tan fuerte como la muerte.
~ Jeanette Winterson
A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Under her fierce gaze my past is burned away.
~ Jeanette Winterson
koca bir fili gökyüzüne sal?vermek bir kad?n?n omuzlar?na olmad?k sorumluluklar yükler.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Whoever is endowed with a power superior to mankind, should also be above the weakness of humanity, without which, that excess of strength would, in effect, only sink him below the most feeble, or what he would actually have been, had he remained their equal.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Suffer, die, or get better; but whatever you do, live while you are alive.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
So much good my persecutors have done me by recklessly pouring out all the shafts of their hatred. They have deprived themselves of any power over me and henceforward I can laugh at them. It
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
the Despot is Master only as long as he is the strongest, and as soon as he can be driven out he cannot protest against violence. The uprising that ends by strangling or dethroning a Sultan is as Lawful an act as those by which he disposed, the day before, of the lives and goods of his Subjects.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Le plus fort n'est jamais assez fort pour être toujours le maître, s'il ne transforme sa force en droit et l'obéissance en devoir.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Plus le corps est faible, plus il commande ; plus il est fort, plus il obéit.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Las galas no tienen nada que ver con la virtud, que es la fuerza y el vigor del alma. El hombre de bien es un atleta que se complace en combatir desnudo: desprecia todos los viles ornatos que estorbarían la utilización de sus fuerzas y que no han sido inventados en su mayoría sino para esconder alguna deformidad.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Poblad igualmente el territorio, extended por todas partes los mismos derechos, llevad a todas ellas la abundancia y la vida; y de este modo el Estado llegará a ser al mismo tiempo el más fuerte y el mejor gobernado de todos.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Haç kartal? kovunca, Romal?lara özgü o gözü peklik de yitip gitti.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This is how in every condition the guilty strong person saves himself at the expense of the innocent weak one...
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau