#strength

People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite. EPO granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder than you'd ever imagined, in both training and racing. ↗

— Daniel Coyle

#race #strength #imagination

The first gift is Strength. May you remember to call upon it whenever you need it. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#character-building #inner-strength #inspiration #strength #inspirational

The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable). ↗

— Ray Dalio

#pain #problem-solving #strength #stress #inspirational

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#endurance #hatred #hope #injustice #life

Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older," Grete suggested. "I'd say you have the gift for it." Hen reddened, then seemed suddenly fascinated with a speck on her shoe. "Be nice to have a gift for something," she said after a moment. "But they don't let girls apprentice, now, do they?" Grete harrumphed. "A bunch of fools, the lot who came up with that system. You lose half the world's brainpower that way. ↗

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

#women-s-liberation #women-s-rights #women-s-strength #inspirational

This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run. ↗

— Penny Chenery Secretariat

#inspirational #life #strength #inspirational

You want to live? Yes! Then quit thinking you're gonna die! ↗

— Laurel Dewey

#life #strength #strength-through-adversity #courage

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ↗

— Walt Disney

#best #had #happens #i #kick

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#life #strength #life

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#inspirational-life #life #moving-forward #strength #struggle