"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
— Albert Camus

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"He who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
— Alexander Hamilton

"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
— Maya Angelou

"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind.

To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will.

To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."
— Bernard Edmond

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
— Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel)

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'

No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
— Frederick Douglass

"If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead."
— Sena Jeter Naslund (Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel)

"We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die."
— Douglas Coupland

"It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself."
— Betty Friedan

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences."
— Jennifer Armintrout

"The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song."
— Psalm 28:7

""It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better." "
— Tony Dungy

"You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong."
— Mercedes Lackey (The Black Gryphon)

"Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great."
— Alex and Brett Harris

"Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be..."
— Wordsworth William

"Faith does not mean that I am not fearful, that I don't cry or that I won't want to escape. Faith is also to cry, to tremble, but with a strength that keeps you in peace."
— A young Quechua woman (quote from VOM Special Update Aug. 2008)

"God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in trouble."
— Various (Holy Bible; Study Bible)

"You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side things."
— Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

"'The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.'"
— Ursula K. LeGuin

"So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.
In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

"Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much ore strength to now when to let go and then do it."
— Ann Landers

"The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God."
— Alex and Brett Harris

"The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are– bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength."
— Charles Handy

"one thing I don’t need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
you can keep yrs
i don’t know what to do wit em
they don’t open doors
or bring the sun back
they don’t make me happy
or get a mornin paper
didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars
cuz a sorry."
— Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf)

"25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail,but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.Psalm 73"
— Various (The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments in the King James Version Translated Out of the Original Tongues)

"God moves in mysterious ways
His wonders to performs"
— William Cowper (The Poems Of William Cowper)

"We acquire the strength we have overcome."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I could not love you, dear, so much
Loved I not honor more"
— Richard Lovelace (Lucasta)

"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm."
— Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825): German Novelist

"As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The House of the Seven Gables)

"Having recovered from an inexplicable moment of weakness Claire was on the defensive, ready to bite. I had the impression that she was now looking for a chance to demonstrate her strength, or her hard-heartedness."
— Jean De Berg (The Image/The Whip Angels)

"Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]"
— Charles de Gaulle