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"Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are."
"Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust."
"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."
"Women are never so strong as after their defeat."
"If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail."
"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
"To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa."
"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure."
"And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."
"I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world."
"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."
"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water."
"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
"Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth."
"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach."
"To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
"The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken."
"As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst."
"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
