The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G.K. Chesterton
Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.
Guy Finley
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.
James Allen
The human will, that force unseen,The offspring of a deathless soul,Can hew the way to any goal,Though walls of granite intervene.
James Allen
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his causes.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
Napolon Bonaparte
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
Sri Aurobindo
When one begins to work in order to bestow, and this goes against ones nature, this is called "toil," since the body (refers to ones wills and desires) opposes it, being that any movement which the body does not see that it will be use for itself, it opposes with all of its strength, and tremendous powers are needed to overcome it.
Baruch Shalom Ashlag
The storm is over, the land hushes to rest: The tyrannous wind, its strength fordone, Is fallen back in the west.
Robert Seymour Bridges
Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!
Robert Seymour Bridges
Some athletes use the mind to try and improve stamina and strength. Can I use my mind to take it away?
Derren Victor Brown
The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Union gives strength.
Aesop
But all our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
Anne Bront