These real strength quotes will inspire you. Real strength, someone’s strengths are the qualities and abilities that they have which are an advantage to them, or which make them successful.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging real strength quotes, real strength sayings, and real strength proverbs.
Best Real Strength Quotes
- “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” ~ Saint Francis de Sales
- “I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.” ~ Joshua Lederberg
- “Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.” ~ Guy Finley
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“If we … capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.” ~ Laura L. Carstensen
- “The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it.” ~ Edwin O. Reischauer
- “Real strength has to do with helping others.” ~ Fred Rogers
- “When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.” ~ Fred Rogers
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“When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people – not our buildings.” ~ Michael Enzi
- “Each one of us starts Karate with some particular reason: to be a good fighter, to keep in good shape, to protect oneself. I wanted to become very strong myself when I first began. But Karate training soon teaches that real strength is facing oneself strictly, with severe eyes. This is the first condition of martial arts training. Therefore, all karateka must be strong inwardly, but quite gentle to others. As we train together, each contributing to a good atmosphere, let’s try to bring out that serious strong mentality from deep inside.” ~ Tsutomu Ohshima
- “It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.” ~ L. Ron Hubbard
- “To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.” ~ Epictetus
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“Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard.” ~ Miep Gies
- “Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.” ~ Gail Tsukiyama
- “Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.” ~ Herman Melville
- “real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.” ~ Ally Carter
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“We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.” ~ Eric Schmidt
- “Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It’s something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words—like ‘aggression’ and even ‘violence’. Real strength is neither male nor female; but it is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that a human being can possess.” ~ Fred Rogers
- “Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.” ~ Ralph Washington Sockman
- “Our strength is that we don’t have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don’t have any real strengths.” ~ Frank Broyles
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“Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.” ~ Alfred Jarry
- “Real strength isn’t control. It’s knowing when to let go.” ~ Christopher Barzak
- “I’m very much for helping create women who are going to be successful women. I don’t like women who imitate men, who want to emasculate men. I think women should be feminine. That does not mean a ‘air-brain’ or someone who is not strong. I think real strength is strength of character, not the ability to push everyone around.” ~ June Dally-Watkins
- “Our personal power is found in the force of our thoughts? it is our real strength.” ~ Robin Sieger
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“Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.” ~ William Pitt
- “For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth – not size, money, or expertise. China is much bigger, richer, more powerful militarily, and has much better skill in diplomacy. They outdo us in every field. But they have no justice. We have placed our whole faith in truth and in justice. We have nothing else, in principle and in practice.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.” ~ Erik Erikson
- “It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruit bearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.” ~ Hudson Taylor
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“To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.” ~ Pericles
- “I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.” ~ Harry S. Truman
- “The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a difference and they are doing it out of passion.” ~ Paul Watson
- “For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth – not size, money, or expertise.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“If we have one real strength, it’s commitment and determination” ~ Nigel Worthington
- “I’m very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There’s no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.” ~ Isabel Allende
- “No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.” ~ Pat Summitt
- “Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.” ~ Timothy Keller
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“It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi’s real strength is to teach Torah and rule on law with an emphasis on what is permitted.” ~ Ovadia Yosef
- “For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
- “The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.” ~ James Russell Lowell
- “Real strength entails being considerate and supportive of people’s feelings.” ~ Mary Kay Ash
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“The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.” ~ Robert Aris Willmott
- “When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only substitute for accuracy in the aim is in the multitude of the shafts.” ~ John Quincy Adams
- “Your real strength within isn’t the strength that you experience in yourself. Your real strength within is in what you are as a being, deeper than what yourself is. Your real strength is within your weakest weakness.” ~ John de Ruiter
- “Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it can emulate the requirements of other moral theories when it is the case that acting on those theories would improve the world.” ~ Dale Jamieson
