Over 100 Quotes About Strength to Make you Strong

Life is tough, and everyone needs strength to get through the rigors of everyday living.  Sometimes we face obstacles and challenges that make us feel weak or depressed.  It’s times like those that some good quotes about strength can help to lift you up and get you going again.  Here are over 100 quotes about strength to inspire, motivate, lift and energize you to get up and get going again

• Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it. – Joel Osteen
• Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health. – Dalai Lama
• Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit. – Napoleon Hill
• We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. – Isabel Allende
• Good Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Churchill
• There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher. —Usain Bolt
• I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. – Frank Herbert
• Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong. – Sarah Dessen
• When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. – R. G. Ingersoll
• Love does not dominate; it cultivates. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. – Haile Selassie
• So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit It’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit. – Edgar A. Guest
• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. – Oprah Winfrey
• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. – Charles Dickens
• New Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman Change, Dreams, Patience
• I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. —Audrey Hepburn
• When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. – Catherine Ponder
• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie
• We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. – J.K. Rowling
• Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal. – Jerome Fleishman
• I like criticism. It makes you strong. – LeBron James
• When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint on the clouds of doubt, And you can never tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems afar.
• In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. – Laurence Sterne

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
• Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Chinese Proverb
• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way. – Dalai Lama
• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi
• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength. – James E. Faust
• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. – Soren Kierkegaard
• A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. – John Burroughs
• The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. – Charles Dickens
• Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. – William Ellery Channing
• If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. – Bruce Lee
• Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Robert H. Schuller
• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. – Maya Angelou
• It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. – Alex Karras
• No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them. – Alana Stewart
• Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
• You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things. – Ken Kesey
• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

• Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you’re not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy. – Nicole Scherzinger
• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
• Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. – Marie Curie
• Be very strong… be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion. —Alberto Juantorena
• I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. —Thomas Paine
• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother – Teresa Faith
• Where A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. – Christopher Reeve
• If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. – Flavia Weedn
• The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway
• Loved With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher. —Pink
• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• 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
• Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. – Drew Barrymore
• Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success. – Zig Ziglar
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mahatma Gandhi
• Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. – Maya Angelou
• Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. – Susan Gale
• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice. —Shawn Johnson
• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw
• The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope – Hal Lindsey
• You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things. – Ken Kesey
• Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. – Arthur Golden
• believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity. – Angelina Jolie
• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller
• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. – Thomas Carlyle
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. – Saint Francis de Sales
• No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• I never said I wanted a ‘happy’ life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. – Isabel Allende
• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius Home, Integrity, Nation Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same. – Angelina Jolie
• 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
• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt
• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. – Wayne Dyer
• Brave You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt
• Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. —Napoleon Hill
• Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears. —Demi Lovato
• All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. —Walt Disney
• Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. – Michael Jordan
• A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. – Christopher Reeve
• The more one judges, the less one loves. – Honore de Balzac
• Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength. – Napoléon Bonaparte
• Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength. – Unknown
• He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. – Louisa May Alcott
• You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius
• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson Perseverance, Patience Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. – Mother Teresa
• Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett
• Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. – Leo Buscaglia
• Our strength grows out of our weaknesses – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits. – Anaïs Nin
• Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. – Mattie Stepanek
• The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. – Thomas Paine
• This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. – Winston Churchill
• When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. – Barbara Bloom
• We acquire the strength we have overcome. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. – Vernon Howard
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• That which does not kill us makes us stronger. —Friedrich Nietzsche
• Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher
• Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse
• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie
• There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. —Booker T. Washington
• Concentration is the secret of strength. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. – Woodrow Wilson
• People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anais Nin
• 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
• In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus
• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. – Abraham Lincoln