Strong Quotes

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

Men, Show, Action

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao Tzu

Nothing, Hard, Water

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Quality, Striving

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, War, Hate

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
Barack Obama

Powerful, Cannot, Security

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Strength, Woman

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
Tupac Shakur

Business, Enough, Nobody

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden

Adversity, Cannot, Away

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luther

Christian, Prayer, Church

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
Ron Paul

Life, Work, Government

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Love, Knowledge

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Peter Marshall

Life, Long, Grow

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle

Soul, Weak, Spite

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon Howard

Person, Others, Needs

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.
LL Cool J

Adversity, Calm, Step

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein

Miss, Drink, Tax

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Men, Wait

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales

Strength, Nothing, Real

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill

Enough, Achieve, Appear

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Margaret Thatcher

Good, Bad, Country

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.
Steve Jobs

Future, Stupid, Keep

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government, Control, Enough

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Life, Character, Fight

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Thomas Carlyle

Hope, Mind, Cause

Only the gentle are ever really strong.
James Dean

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Coco Chanel

Women, Men, Truth

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.
Mitt Romney

Strength, Philosophy, President

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

Religion, Men, Understand

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius

Time, Place, Away

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown

Live, Past, Feelings

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