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May you find great value in these Despotism quotes and sayings.
The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
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We are not to expect to be translated from
despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
- Thomas Jefferson
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
- Thomas Jefferson
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism
to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit
which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men,
in all lands, everywhere.
Destroy this spirit and you have planted
the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
- Abraham Lincoln
The whole commerce between master and slave
is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,
the most unremitting despotism on the one part,
and degrading submissions on the other.
Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What is to give light must endure the burning.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline;
simulated fear postulates courage;
simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
The River of Life flows eternally,
with infinite strength,
but with no convictions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength,
the latter becomes irresistible.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
I ride the storm - cheering wildly.
I gather strength from the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
Honor your being,
Release each and every struggle,
Gather strength from life's storms,
Relax into the arms of spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ride the storm. Cheer wildly.
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you can gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve
Truth always rests with the minority,
and the minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion,
while the strength of a majority is illusory,
formed by the gangs who have no opinion -
and who, therefore, in the next instant
(when it is evident that the minority is the stronger)
assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I gather strength from the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
I am one with Spirit. Spirit is within me.
Spirit permeates me and surrounds me.
Spirit is my comfort and my strength.
I am one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spirit is my comfort and my strength.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
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