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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Sep 10, 2025
Strength is a matter of a made up mind.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Survival is your strength not your shame.
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.
It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.
We have to be much tougher. We have to be much stronger than we've been.
I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
But just because you’re strong and resilient doesn’t mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.
A woman is a warrior too. But she is meant to be a warrior in a uniquely feminine way. Sometime before the sorrows of life did their best to kill it in us, most young women wanted to be a part of something grand, something important.
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.
Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going.
Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.
It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.
Jesus wept, but He never complained.
It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
The more you care, the stronger you can be.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Weakness and strength are necessary for balance. No one or nothing is only weak or only strong. But some of us overlook our weaknesses, and even deny that we have them. That can be dangerous, because denying there is a weakness is in itself a weakness. Likewise, accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a strength. And by the same token, overestimating strength is a weakness. You should not be blinded by your strengths. The feeling of strength is not the same as having strength. Neither should you ignore your weaknesses. Know them well, too.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.
Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
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.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.
The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.