50 Inspirational Quotes to Uplift and Encourage When You're Sick

"Although the world is full of suffering, it’s full also of the overcoming it."

- Helen Keller

"What you do today can improve all of your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Call unto Me, and I will answer you…"

- Jeremiah 33:3

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"And [God] shall heal the breast of the believers."

- at-Tawba, 9:14

"And when I am ill, it is [God] who cures me."

- Ash-Shu’ara, The Poets: 26:80

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you."

- John 14:27

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us."

- A.P.J. Absul Kalam

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."

- George S. Patton

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak."

- Isaiah 40:29

"I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much."

- Mother Teresa

"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him and I am helped."

- Psalm 28:7

"His compassions, they fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness."

- Lamentations 3:22-23

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."

- Orison Swett Marden

"Weapons do not cut this Spirit, fire does not burn it, water does not make it wet, and the wind does not make it dry."

- Bhagavad Gita 2.23-24

"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."

- Euripides

"You never know how much they care until you are under the weather."

- C. Kohler

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."

- Dean Koontz

"The treatment is really a cooperative of a trinity — the patient, the doctor and the inner doctor."

- Ralph Bircher

"The best of healers is good cheer."

- Pindus

"The Spirit is said to be unexplainable, incomprehensible, and immutable. Knowing the Spirit as such, you should not grieve for the physical body."

- Bhagavad Gita 2.25

"One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

- George Santayana

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

- Aristotle

"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted."

- Johann Paul Friedrich

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."

"Tough times don’t last, tough people do."

- Anonymous

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."

"I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday."

- Anonymous