He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
Only by the supernatural is a man strong – only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist – nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.
England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.
Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.
A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor’s sake, stand fast and suffer long.
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.
The important thing is that you’ve got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.
As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.
While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.