Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 123

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
 Lord Acton
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.
There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
 Alec Waugh
When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.
 Janet Jackson
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
 Jose Marti
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
There have been a lot of changes [in the fashion industry], of course. You just have to accept it and be strong.
 Carolina Herrera
The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.
 Lowell Milken
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Everybody\'s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.
You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself
I should say that mental strength is No. 1, experience [is] No. 2, physical strength is No. 3, and genetic ability that you're getting from Mother Nature probably comes after.
 Wladimir Klitschko
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.
 Rudy Giuliani
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
 Clarence Darrow
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.
 Vaclav Havel
When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.
 BrenĂ© Brown