You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions.
Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 110
Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.
Jo Baer
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.
Christina Ricci
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Cooper
I like what the internet offers: the ability to get people interested in your mind, and have a chance if you're not conventionally attractive.
Roxane Gay
Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
Marvin Minsky
[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.
Rebecca West
Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
Carl Sandburg
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan
You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening, and what is happening may include an emotion, a stream of anxiety that suddenly comes up within you.
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
P. G. Wodehouse
How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.
Stephen F Olford
