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“Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

A Murder is Announced (1950)

“Lord, grant me the strength to change the things I can, the serenity to deal with the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order

Widely known as The Serenity Prayer this has often been attributed to St. Francis, but earliest known forms of it appeared in the early 20th century, and it is generally credited to Reinhold Niebuhr.
Misattributed

“A democratic government can gain strength and vitality only by constant scrutiny and the genuine fear that it may be thrown out of a vigilant public opinion.”

V. V. Giri (1894–1980) Indian politician and 4th president of India

Source: Presidents of India, 1950-2003, P.83

“Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is.”

James Anthony Froude book The Nemesis of Faith

Preface, Second edition (21 June 1849)
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

“… this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.”

Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 7

“Strong passions mean weak will, and he
Who truly knows the strength and bliss
Which are in love, will own with me
No passion but a virtue 'tis.”

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet

Book I, Canto III, II Love a Virtue.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“If the Islamists managed to Islamize the whole world, it would not be due to their intellectual strength, nor their faith, let alone their military might but the cowardice of their opponents.”

Waleed Al-Husseini (1989) Palestinian essayist and writer

“Living in a bittersweet state, with an intense awareness of life's fragility and the pain of separation, is an underappreciated strength and an unexpected path to wisdom, joy, and especially communion.”

Susan Cain book Bittersweet

Bittersweet, Chapter 8 at pp. 183-4

“True nobility of spirit manifests itself in the ability not to cast one's shadow on others, transforming the burden of problems into an act of kindness and inner strength.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La vera nobiltà d'animo si manifesta nella capacità di non gettare la propria ombra sugli altri, trasformando il peso dei problemi in un atto di gentilezza e forza interiore.
Source: prevale.net

“A woman’s true charm and strength lie not only in her physical beauty, but above all in her personality, her kindness and her smile.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il vero fascino e la vera forza di una donna non risiedono solo nella sua bellezza fisica, ma soprattutto nella sua personalità, nella sua gentilezza e nel suo sorriso.
Source: prevale.net

“There was something in the wild strength of this landscape, once a battlefield, that seemed to be shouting at him, a presence born of that strength whose cry his whole being recognized as familiar, caught and threw back into the wind, some youthful passage of courage and pride — the passionate, yet so nearly always hypocritical, affirmation of one’s soul perhaps, he thought, of the desire to be, to do, good, what was right.”

Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. IV (p. 124)

“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”

Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

The Yosemite http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_yosemite/ (1912), chapter 15: Hetch Hetchy Valley <br class="br">1910s <br class="br">Variant: Everybody needs beauty... places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.