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"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance." - Author Unknown NULL
"Reverence is one of the signs of strength; irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be forsworn in the day of trial." - Author Unknown NULL
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Author Unknown NULL
"Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of it’s strength." - Author Unknown NULL
"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity." - Ben Jonson
"There is… no point in deliberately flouting public opinion; this is still to be under its domination, though in a topsy-turvy way. But to be genuinely indifferent to it is both a strength and a source of happiness." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts." - Blaise Pascal
"The majority is the best way, because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able." - Blaise Pascal
"The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able." - Blaise Pascal
"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." - Booker T. Washington, fully Booker Taliaferro Washington
"Labor builds up strength, but long idleness destroys it... Labor often dries the tear and brings happiness." - Cato the Elder, Marcus Porius Cato, aka Censorius (the Censor), Sapiens (the Wise), Priscus (the Ancient) NULL
"Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not infrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Distance tests a horse’s strength, time reveals a man’s character." - Chinese Proverbs
"Is there anyone who exerts himself even for a single day to achieve humanity? I have not see any who had not the strength to achieve it." - Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
"The power of the soul for good is in proportion to the strength of passion." - Coventry Patmore, fully Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
"Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away." - Dag Hammarskjöld
"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away." - Dag Hammarskjöld
"It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new... Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and manysideedness... Cheerfulness, and often Confidence, that is a mind devoid of fear, the highest good." - Democritus NULL
"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism." - Dorothy Thompson
"If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than form our strength." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"We all have the strength enough to endure the misfortune of others." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg." - Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
"Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer
"The effectiveness of a doctrine must not be understood, but has to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength." - Eric Hoffer
"There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul’s strength into all of your life’s actions." - Eugenio Maria de Hostos (y Bonilla)
"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, fully Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka FDR
"In its deepest sense, the truth is a condition of heart, soul, mind and strength towards God and towards our fellow – not an utterance, not even a right form of words; and therefore such truth coming forth in words is, in a sense, the person that speaks." - George MacDonald
"It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn." - George Santayana
"Law and justice play no role in the relations of peoples of unequal strength." - Gustave Le Bon
"In the cause of freedom, we have to battle for the rights of people with whom we do not agree; and whom, in many cases, we may not like. These people test the strength of the freedoms which protect all of us. If we do not defend their rights, we endanger our own." - Harry S. Truman
"The strength of our Nation must continue to be used in the interest of all our people rather than a privileged few. It must continue to be used unselfishly in the struggle for world peace and the betterment of mankind." - Harry S. Truman
"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength." - Hasidic Proverbs
"Strategy is better than strength." - Hausa Proverbs
"One of the paradoxical lessons of the nuclear age is that at the moment when we are acquiring an unparalleled command over nature, we are forced to realize as never before that the problems of survival will have to be solved above all in the minds of men. In this task the fate of the mammoth and the dinosaur may serve as a warning that brute strength does not always supply the mechanism in the struggle for survival." - Henry Kissinger, fully Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has not other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such." - Henry Miller, aka Henry Valentine Miller
"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself." - Henry Miller, aka Henry Valentine Miller
"All your strength is in your union, all your danger in discord." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength." - Henry Ward Beecher
"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own." - Henry Ward Beecher
"The strength and the happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way, too." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it only serves to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Union gives strength, even to weak men." - Homer NULL
"All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience." - Hosea Ballou
"Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representation of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish flow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind." - Immanuel Kant
"Virtue signifies a moral strength of will." - Immanuel Kant
"No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength." - Jack Kerouac, born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac