“Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.”
— Anna Julia Cooper
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“We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.”
— Alain Robert
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“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.”
— A. N. Wilson
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“Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.”
— Thomas Huxley
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“Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.”
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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“Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.”
— Shemar Moore
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“It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.”
— Paul von Hindenburg
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“An American, a Negro… two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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“I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is… I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances… but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.”
— Gregory Harrison
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“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
— Woodrow Wilson
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