“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
Mark Twain
“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.”
“Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor”
John Milton
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
“As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist”
“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
Oscar Wilde