102 Inspiring Quotes for Sick: Finding Strength in Illness

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."

- Tori Amos

"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about."

- Jonathan Harnisch

"Behind every chronic illness is just a person trying to find their way in the world. We want to find love and be loved and be happy just like you. We want to be successful and do something that matters. We're just dealing with unwanted limitations in our hero's journey."

- Glenn Schweitzer

"If opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing your hair is the daunting Mount Everest you climb today, that is okay."

- Carmen Ambrosio

"Resting is not laziness, it's medicine!"

- Glenn Schweitzer

"Sometimes you will be in control of your illness and other times you'll sink into despair, and that's OK! Freak out, forgive yourself, and try again tomorrow."

- Kelly Hemingway

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."

- Christopher Reeve

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass…It's about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."

- Samuel Smiles

"If there's life, there is hope."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Ellen Pompeo

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

- Fa Zhou

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear."

- President Snow

"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

"The disease might hide the person underneath, but there's still a person in there who needs your love and attention."

- Jamie Calandriello

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

- Maya Angelou

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way."

- Charles Bukowski

"Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You're doing just fine."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work; you don't give up."

- Anne Lamott

"Courage isn't only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your circumstances requires more courage."

- Sonali Dev

"She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings."

- Ariana Dancu

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse is hope. Once we choose hope, everything is possible."

- Christopher Reeve

"You either get bitter or you get better. It's that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you."

- Josh Shipp

"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 often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make."

- Michael J. Fox

"Some days are better, some days are worse. Look for the blessing instead of the curse. Be positive, stay strong, and get enough rest. You can't do it all, but you can do your best."

- Doe Zantamata

"The strongest people I've met have not been given an easier life. They've learned to create strength and happiness from dark places."

- Kristen Butler

"We are stronger in the places we have been broken."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Never let the things you cannot do prevent you from doing the things you can."

- John Wooden

"All our infirmities, whatever they are, are just opportunities for God to display his gracious work in us."

- C.H. Spurgeon

"When you go through deep waters I will be with you."

- Isaiah 43:2

"The forces that are for you are greater than the forces against you."

- Joel Osteen

"Our way is not soft grass; it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun."

- Ruth Westheimer

"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. Focus on the good, no matter how small."

- Alice Morse Earle

"Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyways."

- Emory Austin

"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 indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Sometimes asking for help is the most meaningful example of self-reliance."

- From the poem “Sometimes” by Cory Booker

"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step."

- Naeem Callaway

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"You don't have to be positive all the time. It's perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, and anxious. Having feelings doesn't make you a negative person. It makes you human."

- Lori Deschene

"You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously."

- J. Donald Walters

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions."

- Steve Case

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to just try one more time."

- Thomas Edison

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"You can't calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass."

- Timber Hawkeye

"The truth is we're all a little bit broken. We must learn to love the broken pieces of ourselves — be gentle and empathetic with ourselves, and others."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do…just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Maybe life isn't about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it's about collecting the scars to prove that we showed up for it."

- Hannah Brencher

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."

- Iain S. Thomas

"Faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see."

- Hebrews 11:1

"Barn's burnt down — Now I can see the moon."

- Mizuta Masahide

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future."

- Ralph Abernathy

"Had to walk the rocks to see the mountain view."

- Caedmon's Call

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

- Lao Tzu

"Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think."

- Gerald G. Jampolsky

"Normality is a paved road. It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."

- Vincent van Gogh

"It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority."

- Mandy Hale

"So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

- Stephen Chbosky

"Please be patient with me. Sometimes when I'm quiet, it's because I need to figure myself out. It's not because I don't want to talk. Sometimes there are no words for my thoughts."

- Kamla Bolaños

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"We grieve because we love. The intensity of the grief often proclaims the depth of our love."

- Gary Roe

"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves."

- Mason D. Wescott

"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."

- Vince Lombardi

"What would the hero of your life's movie do right now? Do that!"

- Joe Rogan

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

- Margaret Mead

"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."

- John F. Kennedy

"Regret for the things we have done will be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

- Sydney J. Harris

"Love many; trust few. Learn to paddle your own canoe."

- American Proverb