La fuerza no es sino una casualidad nacida de la debilidad de los otros.
Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity – but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.
When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.
Your workouts are important meetings you scheduled with yourself. Bosses don’t cancel.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
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.