Strength

“You have power over your mind, not over outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“Do not torment yourself with the future. You will meet it, if you must, with the same reason that serves you in the present.”

“The best way to avenge yourself: do not become like the one who did the wrong.”

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”

“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“All things are possible to the one who believes.”

“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“Man is something that shall be overcome.”

“He who fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

“Have courage to use your own understanding!”

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so many people gladly remain immature for life.”

“It is far safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two must be lacking.”

“Whoever makes another powerful ruins himself.”

“Injuries should be inflicted all at once, so they hurt for less time. Benefits should be given slowly, so they are savoured longer.”

“Know the other and know yourself, and you need not fear a hundred encounters.”

“A hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest skill. To undo resistance without fighting is.”

“Victory is prepared before it is sought. Whoever begins to plan mid-fight has already lost.”

“It is not because it is hard that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that it is hard.”

“Some things are up to us and some are not. All peace begins with telling the two apart.”

“Do not talk about how a good person should be. Be one.”