You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something.
Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem.
You have to learn humility. First of all you have to be humble people. Unless and until you have a large heart you can never humble down. You have to be an extremely humble person. Humility doesn't mean that you bow to a person who is dominating, it never means that. But it means a strength within you. The person who is weak can never be humble.
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