Strength Quotes

"Why have I nominated you, lady, to bear up beneath this most terrible of trials, you and your sisters of the Three Hundred? Because you can. Leonides p. 427"

"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is."

"The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good."

"The power of the present moment is the only strength that can dissolve the pain-body."

"Courage is a kind of endurance of the soul."

"The more concerned we become over the things we can't control, the less we will do with the things we can control."

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

"The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort."

"When you are tired, that is when you find your real strength. That is when the discipline counts."

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"I'm a very strong person. I don't let things get me down."

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

"The middle path is the way to wisdom, but the extremes are the way to strength."

"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. Your internal strength determines your external reality."

"The courage to lead is the strength to put others before yourself."

"You can't have a dream come true unless you have the strength to protect it from the dream-stealers."

"The menu is not the meal."

"Action taken from a state of presence is infinitely more powerful than action taken from a state of anger."

"The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact."

"Poise is just being yourself. Being at ease in any situation. Never fighting yourself."

"Moral results can only be produced by moral restraints."

"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs."

"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now."

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause."

"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."

"Discipline equals freedom."

"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame."

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

"You just have to be able to believe in yourself when no one else does."

"I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice."