We acquire the strength we have overcome.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
-Calvin Coolidge

Whatever does not kill us only strengthens us.
-Anonymous

It's a small world. So you gotta use your elbows a lot.
-Anonymous

Nothing is as strong as gentleness or as gentle as strength.
-from wrapper of Dove Promises milk chocolate candy

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
-Eleanor Roosevelt