Courtesy of Everyday Power Blog
“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.”
Tom Chappel
“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
Seneca
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
Thomas Paine
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Strength is a matter of a made up mind.”
John Beecher
“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
Calvin Coolidge
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.”
Phillips Brooks
“Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.”
Richard E. Byrd
“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”
J. F. Clarke
“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings as eagles; They shall run, and not be weary; and They shall walk, and not faint.”
[Isaiah 40:31] Bible
“Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Anonymous
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within.”
Anonymous
