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Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
There is… no point in deliberately flouting public opinion; this is still to be under its domination, though in a topsy-turvy way. But to be genuinely indifferent to it is both a strength and a source of happiness.
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not infrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.
Cause | Love | Paradox | Revenge | Self | Self-love | Strength | Weakness |
Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
Is there anyone who exerts himself even for a single day to achieve humanity? I have not see any who had not the strength to achieve it.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new... Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and manysideedness... Cheerfulness, and often Confidence, that is a mind devoid of fear, the highest good.
Cheerfulness | Confidence | Fear | Good | Mind | Money | Strength | Happiness | Think |
We all have the strength enough to endure the misfortune of others.
Enough | Misfortune | Strength | Misfortune |
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, fully Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka FDR
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
In its deepest sense, the truth is a condition of heart, soul, mind and strength towards God and towards our fellow – not an utterance, not even a right form of words; and therefore such truth coming forth in words is, in a sense, the person that speaks.
God | Heart | Mind | Right | Sense | Soul | Strength | Truth | Words | God |
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
In the cause of freedom, we have to battle for the rights of people with whom we do not agree; and whom, in many cases, we may not like. These people test the strength of the freedoms which protect all of us. If we do not defend their rights, we endanger our own.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it only serves to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Kissinger, fully Henry Alfred Kissinger
One of the paradoxical lessons of the nuclear age is that at the moment when we are acquiring an unparalleled command over nature, we are forced to realize as never before that the problems of survival will have to be solved above all in the minds of men. In this task the fate of the mammoth and the dinosaur may serve as a warning that brute strength does not always supply the mechanism in the struggle for survival.
Age | Fate | Men | Nature | Problems | Strength | Struggle | Survival | Warning | Will | Fate |
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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