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Source: "Mongolian president signals intention to help resolve N.K. nuclear standoff" in Yonhap News Agency https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20160716002400315 (16 July 2016)
“From extreme old age, sanity is requested. It is like asking for strength from weakness.”
“He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXI: On the supreme good
“I give all my strength to show yourself and make your role magnificent”
" Prime Minister Blair's speech http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/16/international/europe/17text-blair.html?ex=1174104000&en=fc0f4a2452f34103&ei=5070", New York Times, 16 July 2005.
Speech to the Labour Party National Policy Forum.
2000s
" Inaugural Address http://governor.maryland.gov/2015/01/21/inaugural-address-governor-larry-hogan/" (21 January 2015)
“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”
Source: Peony in Love
“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”
Shown at the end of the episode "Scorched Earth", no. 14 in the 3rd season of Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, first aired on February 7, 2000.
Source: The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Context: Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
Variant: In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.