Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.--Ann Landers 

Some people strengthen others just by being the kind of people they are.--John M. Gardener 

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.--Napoleon Hill 

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

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.--Arnold Schwarzenegger 

Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of those pieces--Judith Viorst 

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.--Amos Bronson Alcott 

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on "giving as good as they get."--Elbert Hubbard (The Notebook) 

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.--Jimmy Carter 

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.--Booker T. Washington 

There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm.--Beverly Sills 

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.--Aaron Hill 

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.--George Macdonald (The Marquis of Lossie) 

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

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.--Henry Miller (The Time of Assassins) 

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?--John Milton (Samson Agonistes) 

When events occur that we didn’t expect, they increase our faith, strengthen our ability to endure, and bring forth our hidden talents, abilities and strengths.--Iyanla Vanzant 

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.--Chilon 

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.--Thomas Merton (No Man Is an Island) 

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

A woman is like a tea bag--only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.--Nancy Reagan (The Observer, 1981) 

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride.--Charleszetta Waddles

the goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.--Gary Ryan Blair 

A goal properly set is halfway reached.--Zig Ziglar 

Goals are dreams with deadlines.--Diana Scharf Hunt 

Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.--O. Carl Simonton 

Goals are the barriers that limit our ability to reach our true potential.--David V. Ellison 

Goals are your personal statements of what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want to achieve.--Denis Waitley