If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.
I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.
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.
Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
Never compromise your values.
It’s hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can’t understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good – and bad – to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don’t get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help.
There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
I don’t think you should wait. I think you should speak now.
Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone.
A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission.
Anything that makes you weak – physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject it as poison.