"The least strength suffices to break what is bruised."
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"The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue."
"No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him."
"I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."
"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."
"We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others."
"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength."
"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."
"Every obstacle in his journey became a milestone, an occasion for further triumph. We have a model in front of us now, a model who blazes our trail and gives us strength."
"The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving."
"All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together."
"He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman."
"I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time."
"It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not."
"Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?"
"True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses."
"So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency."
"Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken."
"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."
"Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less."