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.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
You must stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.
You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.
When I’ve heard all I need to make a decision, I don’t take a vote. I make a decision.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared.
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
Don’t give up just because of what someone said. Use it as motivation to push harder.
If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.
Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level.
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death.
True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
Be brave, be bold, be free.