Look well into thyself;
there is a source of strength which will always spring up
if thou wilt always look there.
-Marcus Antoninus
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers,
but for powers equal to our tasks,
to go forward with a great desire
forever beating at the door of our hearts
as we travel toward our distant goal.
-Helen Keller
Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
-Plato
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
-Victor Hugo
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
-Ben Jonson
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life,
you must accept the terms it offers you.
-T.S. Eliot
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal:
my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
-Louis Pasteur
Nothing is so strong as gentleness
and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
-Frances de Sales
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If we did all the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
-Thomas Edison
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.
If you do the little jobs well,
the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
-Dale Carnegie
Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
-Ambrose Redmoon
What this power is, I cannot say.
All I know is that it exists
and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind
in which you know exactly what you want
and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
-Alexander Graham Bell
Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do.
But to hold it together when everyone else
would understand if you fell apart,
that's true strength.
-unknown
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire
is that which he exercises over himself.
-Elie Weisel
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
-Lao-Tzu
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Believe in your strength and your truth.
Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself.
"It all depends on me."
-Andre Gide
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair
but manifestations of strength and resolution.
-Kahlil Gibran
I could do nothing without problems,
they toughen my mind.
In fact I tell my assistants
not to bring me their successes for they weaken me;
but rather to bring me their problems,
for they strengthen me.
-Charles F Kettering
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