Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
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 the depths.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy. It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
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
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?