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The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
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The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Honor your being,
Release each and every struggle,
Gather strength from life's storms,
Relax into the arms of spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Ride the storm. Cheer wildly.
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
I ride the storm - cheering wildly.
I gather strength from the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is to give light must endure the burning.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline;
simulated fear postulates courage;
simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength,
the latter becomes irresistible.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am one with Spirit. Spirit is within me.
Spirit permeates me and surrounds me.
Spirit is my comfort and my strength.
I am one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I gather strength from the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world
shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon
Spirit is my comfort and my strength.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you can gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure
to dance without cessation;
and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
- Lewis Carroll
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength,
and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
The people are the foundation of the nation.
Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth:
the release of the strength of the common man.
- Jimmy Yen
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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