“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”
“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”
“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”
“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”
“One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.”
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.”
“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.”