Quotes with strong-willed

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  • Frederick Douglass It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Wendell L. Willkie It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • William Shakespeare It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Elbert Hubbard It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alice Miller It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Carl Karcher It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Bethany Kennedy Scanlon Jealousy's vicious bulldog trampled through my soul. I was furious, no, furious is not a strong enough word; I was enraged with envy, hate, and malice toward a strange brunette kissing my boyfriend. What is that tramp doing with my man?
    Lori Lentrall, in Secrets of an Undercover Agent
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  • Lawrence Durrell Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Pliny the Elder Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Barack Obama Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Annie Besant Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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