If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
The wind of God’s grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.
You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.
I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
Surely the test of a novel’s characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love.
We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.
While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.
Let your failures refine you, not define you.