Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where a backbone ought to be. ~ Clementine Paddleford

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. ~ John Ruskin

Permanence, perserverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ~ Francis Drake

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ~ Paul Cézanne

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as real strength. ~ Francis De Sales

What does not destroy me makes me stronger. ~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888

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

The mountain violets break the rocks. ~ Tennessee Williams

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