Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.
Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
The mind requires regular use to remain strong.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.
The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.
The goal is to help the weak grow strong, not to let the weak become weaker.
Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.
We’re an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well.
Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.
The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.
I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion – give me a little fire, be strong, don’t be wishy-washy, do the right thing.
We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation.
As long as I try, there’s always a chance of getting up. It’s not the end until you give up.