Quotes About Strength

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

Self reliance, always. And cheerfulness.

So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.

7. Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been.

Use the setback to practice other virtues.

It is a shame when the soul is first to give way in this life, and the body does not give way.

The student as boxer, not fencer. The fencer's weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer's is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist.

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

Show by a cheerful look that you don't need the help or comfort of others. Standing up - not propped up.

The thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.

Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

7. Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.

Finally, in every event which leads you to sorrow, remember to use this principle: that this is not a misfortune, but that to bear it like a brave man is good fortune.

To be cheerful, and to stand in no need, either of other men's help or attendance, or of that rest and tranquillity, which thou must be beholding to others for. Rather like one that is straight of himself, or hath ever been straight, than one that hath been rectified.

You say — 'It's unfortunate that this has happened to me.' No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it — not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it.

Fire feeds on obstacles

Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.

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