There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Topic: Accountability, Inspiration, Strength
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
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There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspire others.
The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.
What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
