We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Interpretation
Resisting temptation builds our strength and character.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the challenges we face and the temptations we choose to resist contribute to our personal growth and resilience. Each time we resist an urge, we reinforce our ability to make choices aligned with our values and goals, thereby becoming stronger individuals.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Instead of asking "whatβs the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?
It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.
Like a bird with broken wing_x000D_ _x000D_ that has traveled through wind for years . . ._x000D_ _x000D_ I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
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