Haile Selassie Quotes

A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

I try to be the same guy every day, no matter the situation, no matter the adversity.

Worshippers aren't made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are.

Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

It is an important part of our life’s experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]

If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.