Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
I think scars are like battle wounds – beautiful, in a way. They show what you’ve been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.
As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
What is to give light must endure burning.
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
