John Dryden Quotes

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

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

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.

I just want people to know I'm mentally strong.

I believe resilience is the most useful human quality, and I've sought to cultivate it, but in 2019 I felt my resolve begin to weaken at times as it has never done before.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

You are always bigger than the problem, the problem can never be bigger than you.

Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.

You have to stay strong when it gets tough.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.