Elbert Hubbard Quotes

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I've been strong my whole entire life.

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.

I've always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.

Can't nobody else get in there and help you. Your coach, he can't get in the ring and fight with you. You don't have your dad, your mom. When you get in the ring, you don't have anybody but yourself.

I thought I was weak and couldn't be on my own. But actually, I can do it; I just need to be a bit braver.

It's a very unique feeling - to be that strong and unbreakable. But I'm working towards it.

I think the inner strength that I have helps me stay calm.

Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I really like women with strength - although I feel now I may have gone overboard by playing so many strong, sassy women.

Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations became serious, was inner go. Rome’s life was now an imitation of life: a mere holding on. Security was the watchword – as if life knew any other stability than through constant change, or any form of security except through a constant willingness to take risks

Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.