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Quotes About Strength

The waves just keep coming and knocking you down, but you stand up again and with some sense of rousing yourself, standing up.
~ Pema Chodron
We can make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same.
~ Pema Chodron
Al principio de nuestro matrimonio, mi esposo me dijo que yo era una de las personas más valientes que conocía. Cuando le pregunté por qué, me dijo que porque era una cobarde total, pero a pesar de todo seguía adelante y hacía las cosas.
~ Pema Chodron
We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same. Right now we are creating our state of mind for tomorrow, not to mention this afternoon, next week, next year, and all the years of our lives.
~ Pema Chodron
Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
~ Pema Chodron
the only time we ever know what's really going on is when the rug's been pulled out and we can't find anywhere to land. We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or to put ourselves to sleep. Right now—in the very instant of groundlessness—is the seed of taking care of those who need our care and of discovering our goodness.
~ Pema Chodron
Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.
~ Honore de Balzac
Every present anger derives from past weakness.
~ Glen Duncan
Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]
~ Ovid
what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
~ Audre Lorde
More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.
~ Dalai Lama
Darkness and anger, when combined, are their own master.
~ S.R. Ford
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
~ Bible
They said" Your Anger could Destroy you.." Even if my Brain designed it to Destroy my enemy.
~ Srinivas Shenoy
When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.
~ Rachel Cohn, Beta
A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
~ Amartya Sen
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
~ Victor Hugo
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
~ Ayn Rand
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
~ William Shakespeare
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
~ George Eliot
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
~ Charles Caleb Colton