Strength Quotes

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo — far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened."

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength."

"You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it."

"Fall seven times. Stand up eight."

"Inner strength is your greatest armor."

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

"Real strength is not in muscles but in character."

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

"It's not about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

"The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow."

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

"Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness."

"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."

"You never realize how strong you are until being strong is the only option you have."

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."

"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop."

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

"Promise me you'll always remember — you're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

"Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it."

"You were born to be real, not to be perfect."

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient."

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

"Strength is the product of struggle. You must do what others don't to achieve what others won't."

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

"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."

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

"I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me."

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before."

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

"The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

"No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again."

"The only way out is through."

"It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. What matters is how many times you get up."

"Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from 'I can't do this' to 'I must do this'."

"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

"Everything you are going through is preparing you for everything you asked for."

"You are stronger than you think."

"Scars remind us where we have been. They do not have to dictate where we are going."

"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph."

"Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."

"Mental strength is doing what's right and important rather than what feels easy and comfortable."

"They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds."

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place."

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

"Survival can be summed up in three words — never give up."

"You have been assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved."

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

"Inner strength is the foundation on which all other strengths are built."

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

"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."