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Inspirational Quotes About Strength

Whether they were heroes, poets, scholars, or leaders, the brightest minds in human history have thought and written about values and their meanings. Use the search field on the left to search our quotation database by author, value, or specific word contained in the quote.

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Index_card_top “Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”
 
Joseph Campbell  (1904-1987);
Lecturer, Writer
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Index_card_top “Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.”
 
James Bryant Conant  (1893-1978);
Chemist, Educational Administrator
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Index_card_top “The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be...Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.”
 
Wilferd A. Peterson  (1900-1995);
Author, Businessman
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Index_card_top “Courage is only the accumulation of small steps.”
 
George Konrad  (born 1933);
Novelist
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Index_card_top “To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
 
Helen Keller  (1880-1968);
Author, Lecturer, Activist
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Index_card_top “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson  (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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Index_card_top “When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.”
 
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi  (1869-1948);
Indian Political And Spiritual Leader
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Index_card_top “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
 
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi  (1869-1948);
Indian Political And Spiritual Leader
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Index_card_top “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
 
Khalil Gibran  (1883-1931);
Artist, Poet, Writer
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Index_card_top “What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  (1749-1832);
Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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Index_card_top “Pray not for easy lives, pray to be stronger men.”
 
John F. Kennedy  (1917-1963);
35th Us President
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Index_card_top “Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”
 
Maggie Kuhn  (1905-1995);
American. Civil Rights Activist, Author
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Index_card_top “Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses — for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it.”
 
Herman Melville  (1819-1891);
Novelist, Poet
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Index_card_top “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
 
Friedrich Nietzsche  (1844-1900);
Scholar, Writer, Philosopher
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Index_card_top “Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There's no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.”
 
Carly Patterson  (born 1988);
Gold Medal Gymnast In 2004 Olympics
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Index_card_top “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
 
M. Scott Peck  (1936-2005);
Psychiatrist, Author
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