#strength

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar, and no savage and wild beasts to drive him into the arena?

The ancient saying, 'Yield and overcome,' is not an empty phrase. Truly, if you yield, you will be whole.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The soft and the yielding overcome the hard and the strong.

The hard and strong will fall. The soft and weak will overcome.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Help yourself: then everyone will help you. Principle of brother-love.

Where are your greatest dangers? In compassion.

I want to have my lions and my eagles about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions to know whether my strength increaseth or decreaseth.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer oneself; to be conquered by one's own weakness is of all things most shameful.

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical and mental training; what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without seeing the strength and beauty of which his body and mind are capable.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Never, never, never give up.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

When the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he has the strength to be bad: all other goodness is most often only sloth or lack of will.

We have more strength than will; and it is often to excuse ourselves in our own eyes that we fancy things are impossible.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul that raises it above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which the sight of great dangers produces.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.