Courage and Strength

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

He who walks straight rarely falls.

An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.

I love those who can smile in trouble

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.