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?
When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation.
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
If I found a healing tree in my backyard, and it grew some sort of fruit that was a healing balm for people to repair what was damaged, I'm not going to just harvest all of those fruits and say, 'You cant have this.' If I have a cure for people, I'm going to share it.
Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
To the confusion of our enemies.
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