Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender
Original: È necessario essere forti. Nessuno può farlo per noi.
Source: prevale.net
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender
“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild
Source: Into the Wild
Thuy Trang (1973–2001) Vietnamese actress (1973-2001)
Power Rangers Unlimited: Thuy Trang Interview https://myriahac.tripod.com/id8.html (December 24, 1994)
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (1968) American photographer
Biographical profile
Official site
Context: There can never be too many of us doing this type of work … The work that we do is necessary beyond accolades or honors. In fact, to do it for accolades or honors alone is criminal. I am my brother’s keeper, may I always behave as such!
Zhang Zhijun (1953) Chinese politician
Zhang Zhijun (2013) cited in " Taiwan under pressure to engage China in political dialogue http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1330565/taiwan-under-pressure-engage-china-political-dialogue" on South China Morning Post, 13 October 2013.
William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) English mathematician and philosopher
The Ethics of Belief (1877), The Duty of Inquiry
Context: No man holding a strong belief on one side of a question, or even wishing to hold a belief on one side, can investigate it with such fairness and completeness as if he were really in doubt and unbiased; so that the existence of a belief not founded on fair inquiry unfits a man for the performance of this necessary duty.
Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it. He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart. If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future. It goes to make a part of that aggregate of beliefs which is the link between sensation and action at every moment of all our lives, and which is so organized and compacted together that no part of it can be isolated from the rest, but every new addition modifies the structure of the whole. No real belief, however trifling and fragmentary it may seem, is ever truly insignificant; it prepares us to receive more of its like, confirms those which resembled it before, and weakens others; and so gradually it lays a stealthy train in our inmost thoughts, which may someday explode into overt action, and leave its stamp upon our character for ever.
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
"Three Interviews" in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)
“I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Letter to Mark Hannah (27 June 1900)
1900s
“It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.”
Robert Mugabe (1924–2019) former President of Zimbabwe
"ZAPU deposes Mr. Nkomo as Leader", The Times, 9 July 1962, p. 9
Remarks to the press, 8 July 1962, concerning the future strategy of ZAPU in achieving majority rule.
1960s