When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.

—Thomas Merton

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

—Rachel Carlson

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

—Mahatma Gandhi

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

—Hal Borland

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

—Thomas Paine

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

—Richard E. Byrd

Some people strengthen others just by being the kind of people they are.

—John M. Gardener

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

—Henry Ward Beecher

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

—Etty Hillesum

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

—Ralph Sockman