Strength Quotes

"It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on—it takes a lot of strength to let go."

- J.C. Watts

"I'd prefer 'be strong' than 'don't worry'."

- Toba Beta

"The embers in your soul, they're still lit. You must protect them, with every last bit. For your elements are beyond all their doubt. Reignite your fire, their judgement will burn out."

- B.K. Sweeting

"They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart."

- Anthony Liccione

"I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over."

- Janet Jackson

"Strength isn't always shown in what you can hold on to, sometimes it's shown in what you can let go of."

- Drake

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."

- Leo Rosten

"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."

- Francis Bacon

"Only the gentle are ever really strong."

- James Dean

"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."

- Euripides

"My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill."

- Emilie Autumn

"Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces."

- Judith Viorst

"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice."

- Bethany Hamilton

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed."

- Linda Wooten

"Postpartum is a quest back to yourself. Alone in your body again. You will never be the same, you are stronger than you were."

- Amethyst Joy

"The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her, but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes."

- C. JoyBell C.