Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.
God’s grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.
If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
You must stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.
Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.
The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force, but drive it back, because what they’re fighting for rightfully belongs to them.
You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation...
You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.
Don’t be like those people who believe in ‘positive thinking’ and tell themselves that they’re loved and strong and capable. You don’t need to do that, because you know it already.