100 Inspirational Quotes About Staying Strong: A Powerful Collection to Empower You

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Peter Marshall

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

"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

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"What makes you different or weird, that's your strength."

- Meryl Streep

"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

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Lao Tzu

"Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up."

- Rocky Balboa

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

- Christopher Reeve

"And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear."

- Paulo Coelho

"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 we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on."

- James Frey

"Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you."

- George R.R. Martin

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Robert Jordan

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."

- William Samuel Johnson

"Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure."

- Napoleon Hill

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on. It is going on when you don't have strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability."

- Brené Brown

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"I’ve learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me—the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived."

- Oprah Winfrey

"That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."

- Helen Keller

"Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong."

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Nelson Mandela

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Maya Angelou

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Bob Marley

"Conquering others is power; conquering oneself is strength."

- Lao Tzu

"Valor is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul."

- Michel de Montaigne

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."

- Greg Kincaid

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

- Winston Churchill

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

- J.K. Rowling

"There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together."

- Mother Teresa

"It's your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life's story will develop."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Jodi Picoult

"Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine."

- Mark Nepo

"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

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

- Ralph Ellison

"Rule your mind or it will rule you."

- Gautama Buddha

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

- Jane Austen

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

- J.K. Rowling

"We will either find a way, or make one."

- Anibal Barca

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."

- Veronica Roth

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

- Edmund Hillary

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"There are certain life lessons that you can only learn in the struggle."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems."

- Gever Tulley

"The only failure is not to try"

- George Clooney

"I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me."

- Norman Maclean

"The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

- William James

"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."

- Samuel Johnson

"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere… Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong."

- Jon Krakauer

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it’s right."

- Rosa Parks

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

- Phyllis Bottome

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

- Ambrose Redmoon

"If you own this story you get to write the ending."

- Brené Brown

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

- Maya Angelou

"What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength."

- Meryl Streep

"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature."

- Bram Stoker

"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty."

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths."

- John H. Zenger

"It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life."

- Anne LaMott

"Grief and resilience live together."

- Michelle Obama

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."

- Charles Dickens

"We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free."

- Kavita Ramdas

"The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears."

- Demi Lovato

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it."

- Epictetus

"My strength is as the strength of 10, / Because my heart is pure."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment."

- Bram Stoker

"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't – surrender to events with hope."

- Alain de Botton

"Courage is found in unlikely places."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

- Toni Morrison

"You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things."

- Ken Kesey

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

"Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

- Mary Oliver

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine―and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

"I am stronger than I am broken."

"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty."

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will."