Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

To ask for help does not make you weak. And that was something I felt after I was carjacked. I felt shame. I felt embarrassed. I felt weak about it. That's not the case at all. Once I did get help, I managed to overcome it and make something special with it, instead of not doing anything about it.

Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.

Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.

Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.

You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

True power is given to the vulnerable.

We are responsible for everything that happens in this world. We are warriors of light, and with the strength of our love and of our will we can change our destiny and that of many other people.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means “to make firm.” So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.

There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.