As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Never compromise your values.
Anything that makes you weak – physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject it as poison.
You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Your workouts are important meetings you scheduled with yourself. Bosses don’t cancel.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, but frankly we won’t if we’re too afraid to try.