Quotes with strength

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  • Anais Nin I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • John Ruskin If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Beatrice Webb If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Ben Elton If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Francis Quarles If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • T. S. Eliot If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Robert Conklin If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
    Robert Conklin
    American teacher, writer
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  • Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • James Allen In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Robert E. Lee In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Billy Evans In all probability, when the 1919 series is over, a diagnosis of it will show that the final result was brought about by some unusual situation or freak happening that was given no consideration when the relative strength of the two clubs was considered.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • St. John of the Cross In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Aesop In union there is strength.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Karen Horney Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
    Karen Horney
    German-American psychoanalyst (1885 - 1952)
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  • Janet Guthrie It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
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  • Elbert Hubbard It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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