50 Inspirational Positive Infertility Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"What I thought would kill me, didn’t. Every time I said to myself: I can’t take this anymore—I was wrong. The truth was that I could and did take it all—and I kept surviving. Surviving, again and again, made me less afraid of myself, of other people, of life."

- Glennon Doyle

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

- Maya Angelou

"Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time."

- Dean Koontz

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all -"

- Emily Dickinson

"No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true."

- Cinderella

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

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

- Bob Marley

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’m possible"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Learn to trust the journey even when you don’t understand it."

- Mila Bron

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"She is brave and strong and broken all at once."

- Anna Funder

"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear."

- President Snow

"You always pass failure on your way to success."

- Mickey Rooney

"Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours."

- Zero Dean

"People cry not because they’re weak but because they’ve been strong for too long"

- Johnny Depp

"Just because your path is different doesn’t mean you’re lost."

- Gerard Abrams

"Even miracles take a little time."

- The Fairy Godmother, Cinderella

"There is purpose in your season of waiting."

- Megan Smalley

"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"I am learning to trust the journey even when I do not understand it."

- Mila Bron

"Just keep swimming."

- Finding Nemo

"As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens on its own."

- Denis Waitley

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King

"Making the decision to have a child—it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

- Elizabeth Stone

"And you begin again and sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, but you begin again. Even though your heart is breaking, in time the sun will shine and you will begin again."

- Barry Manilow

"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do."

- H. Jackson Brown

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

- Cayla Mills

"I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me."

- Cheryl Strayed

"When you recognize that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them, that you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them, that you will hold the empty bowls eternally in your hands, but you also have the capacity to fill them? THE WORD FOR THAT IS HEALING."

- Cheryl Strayed

"It’s okay to feel all of the stuff you’re feeling. You’re just becoming human again. You’re not doing life wrong; you’re doing it right. If there’s any secret you’re missing, it’s that doing it right is just really hard. Feeling all your feelings is hard, but that’s what they’re for. Feelings are for feeling. All of them. Even the hard ones. The secret is that you’re doing it right and that doing it right hurts sometimes."

- Glennon Doyle

"Grief shatters. If you let yourself shatter and then you put yourself back together, piece by piece, you wake up one day and realize that you have been completely reassembled."

- Glennon Doyle

"All it takes is faith and trust and a little bit of pixie dust"

- Peter Pan

"Our fate lives within us; you only have to be brave enough to see it."

- Merida

"If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead."

- Ratatouille

"The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

- Rafiki, The Lion King

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"A great adventure is about to begin."

- Winnie the Pooh

"A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink."

- Gina Carey

"Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body."

- Ina May Gaskin

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

- Nelson Mandela

"She who is brave is free."

- Seneca

"Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy."

- Glennon Doyle

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

- Nora Ephron

"The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence."

- Beyonce

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."

- Katharine Hepburn

"Infertility doesn’t need to be an all or nothing conversation."

- Dania Sanders

"I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it."

- Art Williams

"A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles"

"And sometimes against all odds, against all logic, we still hope."

"Be gentle with yourself, you’re doing the best you can."

"Fertility may have challenged us, but we are stronger for it."

"Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason it will."

"Good things are going to happen."

"If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working for it."

"Infertility is HOPE"

"It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; It’s even hard to give up when you know it’s everything you want."

"Just keep trying, it’s all you can do."

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it."

"The moment you’re ready to quit is usually the moment right before the miracle happens. Don’t Give Up."

"The struggle is part of the story."

"With a baby or without, you are valuable. You are whole. And you matter."

"You are much stronger than you think."

"People cry, not because they’re weak, It’s because they’ve been strong for too long."

"There’s no telling how many miles you have to run while chasing a dream."

"Don’t expect everyone to understand your journey, especially if they’ve never had to walk your path."

"Infertility is a loss. It’s the loss of a dream. It’s the loss of an assumed future. And, like every loss, it will be grieved."

"When the world says, ‘give up,’ hope whispers, ‘try one more time.’"

"I will not let the stress of infertility overtake my life."

"It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; It’s even harder to give up when you know it’s everything you want."

"It’s going to be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end."

"I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it."

"What feels like the end is often the beginning."

"A little progress each day adds up to big results."

"Strong women aren’t simply born. They are made by the storms they walk through."

"A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty."

"Sometimes the struggle is what makes success even sweeter."

"Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them."