Lev Raphael quotes

“Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.”
-- Lev Raphael

Source : Gershen Kaufman, Lev Raphael, Pamela Espeland (1999). “Stick Up for Yourself!: Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem”, p.8, Free Spirit Publishing

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“There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15

“My family is my strength and my weakness.”

“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.”

“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”

Source : "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

“If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.”

Source : Alexander Crummell (1969). “Africa and America”, p.376, Рипол Классик

“Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.”

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”

“There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial