With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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

—Thomas Merton

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

—Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

—Rachel Carlson

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

—Richard E. Byrd

A man doesn’t realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.

—Martin Niemoller

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

—Ralph Sockman

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

—Mignon McLaughlin

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

—Booker T. Washington

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

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

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible—not to have run away.   

—Dag Hammarskjold