Stay Strong: A Powerful Collection of Inspirational Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”"

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep going"

- Martin Luther King jr.

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Christopher Reeve

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

"It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them."

- Winston Churchill

"When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength."

- Winston Churchill

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

- Nelson Mandela

"Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Steve Maraboli

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

- Napoleon Hill

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"Fall seven times, Stand up eight"

- Chinese Proverb

"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

"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

"All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

- Walt Disney

"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

"When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision—then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

"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

"Look well into yourself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if you will always look there."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"At times being strong is not a choice but it's the only option."

- Garima Soni - words world

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

- Bob Marley

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

- James Frey

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Babe Ruth

"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

"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

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Francis de Sales

"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

"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

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

- Thomas Paine

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Ziad K. Abdelnour

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"I survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around me. I fell down into that dark chasm, but the flame burned on and on."

- Joshua Graham

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"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

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only failure is not to try"

- George Clooney

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!"

- Phillips Brooks

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

- Misty Copeland

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears."

- Gillian Anderson

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- William Ellery Channing

"Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice."

- Shawn Johnson

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them—that’s what makes you strong."

- Sarah Dessen

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

- Lao Tzu

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Mark Nepo

"Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it."

- Ann Landers

"Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Focus on your character, not your reputation. Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes."

- Roy T. Bennett

"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep."

- Vernon Howard

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

- Samuel Johnson

"It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty."

- Dalai Lama

"Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you."

- George Whitefield

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

- Mother Teresa

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

- John Quincy Adams

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."

- Marie Curie

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

- Michel de Montaigne

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong."

- Sarah Dessen

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current."

- Ted Dekker

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

- Anaïs Nin

"If you are contemplating ending your life, know this: Your Life Matters!"

- Germany Kent

"Be fearless, courageous and heart pumpingly awesome."

- Hiral Nagda

"Most people don't support you when you are struggling. They support people who are successful. All of you who are struggling will realise this one day. But don't give up your struggle."

- Avijeet Das

"Never waste your pain. It's a gift from the Gods of heaven. It's perfectly orchestrated to build you back staggeringly magnificent."

- Hiral Nagda

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Idowu Koyenikan

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Aaron Lauritsen

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

- J.C. Watts

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"Don’t mistake politeness for lack of strength."

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- John H. Zenger

"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

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

- Meryl Streep

"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."

- Veronica Roth

"I like criticism. It makes you strong."

- LeBron James

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

- Demi Lovato

"Let us leave no effort. let us give it our all we will chase our dream like mad men and mad women, who have the gall."

- Avijeet Das

"If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help."

- John F. Kennedy

"It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity."

- Hippocrates

"Mental wellness is so important. Take care of your mind and the way you speak to yourself. Don’t let negative thoughts weaken you."

- Germany Kent

"Everything nourishes what is strong already."

- Jane Austen

"I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher."

- Pink

"O! it is excellent / To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Bram Stoker

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

- Susan Gale

"There are better starters than me, but I’m a strong finisher."

- Usain Bolt

"Rule your mind or it will rule you."

- Gautama Buddha

"Be very strong… be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion."

- Alberto Juantorena

"Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God's word, and trust the process."

- Germany Kent

"There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

- Booker T. Washington

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Molière

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."

- Japanese Proverb

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"He conquers who endures."

- Persius

"He who is brave is free."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Fortune favors the brave."

- Virgil

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

- Lao Tzu

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

- Seneca

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

"Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."

"I am stronger than I am broken."

"Harder the struggle, more glorious the triumph!!!"

"Before something great happens, everything falls apart"

"The darkest nights, produce the brightest stars"

"This too shall come to pass. Just hold on."

"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling."

"This too shall pass"

"Brave men rejoice in adversity."

"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden."

"The greater the effort, the greater the glory."

"Start where you are, Use what you have, Do what you can"

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."

"Adversity does not build character, it reveals it."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul—and sings the tunes without the words—and never stops at all."