It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.
- Topic: Integrity, Strength
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If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.
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You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
True strength lies in gentleness.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
