Quotes with strong-willed

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  • Thomas à Kempis Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Barry White Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Adolf Hitler Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • John Milton Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Barry White Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Jerry Rubin Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
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  • Abraham Lincoln Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barry Hannah My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Barbara Corcoran My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Boris Pasternak No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Phillips Brooks No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Alan Alda No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Lord Melbourne Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Lao-Tzu Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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