strength Quotes

“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

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“There is prodigious strength . . . in sorrow and despair.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evill intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book

“in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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“love means renouncing strength”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”

― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

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