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It's not the load that breaks you down - it's the way you carry it.
-Lou Holtz
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
-Joseph Joubert
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The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
-Stanislaw Lec
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You expect to break me? Impossible! You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago...
-Charles Manson
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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
-Mignon McLaughlin
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I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of success.
-Barry Munro
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I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
-Carry Nation
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
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First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it.
http://academics.vmi.edu/psy_dr/friedrich_nietzsche.htm
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols, 1899
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What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
-Earl Nightingale
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Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
-Sir Laurence Olivier
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Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
-Phaedrus
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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
-Pythagoras
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
-Leo Rosten
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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
-John Ruskin
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How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.
-William Shakespeare
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
-Ralph W. Sockman
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
-Madame Swetchine
The Writings of Madame Swetchine
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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
-Madame Swetchine
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
-Jonathan Swift
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The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
-The Talmud
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Books about Strength
