We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma Bombeck

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao Tzu

Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
Eleanor Roosevelt

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Brian Tracy

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift