Quotes About Strength

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.

Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman, not the grief of a child ...

I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Our family never had any hard luck, because nothing seemed hard luck to it, nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Despair is criminal.