Empowering Quotes on Positivity, Strength, and Courage

Explore a curated collection of inspiring quotes that celebrate positivity, strength, and courage. Discover how these powerful words can uplift your spirit and motivate you to face life's challenges with resilience. From Arnold Schwarzenegger to Maya Angelou, these quotes remind us that true strength comes from within and that every struggle can lead to growth. Dive into this treasure trove of wisdom and let these words inspire you to embrace your inner strength and courage.

Wisdom from the Masters

"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

Strength

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Strength

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

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

- Lao Tzu

Strength

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

- Mark Twain

Courage

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Resilience

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Courage

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Strength

"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

Strength

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition aspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

Growth

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

- Ernest Hemingway

Resilience

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness

"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

Empowerment

"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love."

- Leo Buscaglia

Courage

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

- Christopher Reeve

Courage

"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

Courage

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Strength

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage

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

- Marie Curie

Persistence

"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

Strength

"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

Empowerment

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

- Steve Maraboli

Resilience

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

- Rosa Parks

Courage

"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

Courage

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

- Mark Twain

Courage

"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

"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

Perseverance

"Choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid at the exact same time."

- Brené Brown

Courage

"You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both."

- Brene Brown

Courage

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

- Ernest Hemingway

Strength

"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.

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage

"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

Courage

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

- Susan Gale

Strength

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

- Sarah Dessen

Courage

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

- Robert Schuller

Resilience

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

- Demi Lovato

Happiness

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

- Drew Barrymore

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- Isabel Allende

Resilience

"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

Courage

"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

Belief

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

- Mark Nepo

Strength

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Strength

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

- Napoleon Hill

Hard Work

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

- William Ellery Channing

Strength

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

- Shawn Johnson

Courage

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Strength

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

Courage

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

- Phillips Brooks

Courage

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

- Misty Copeland

Courage

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

- Og Mandino

Resilience

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

- Gillian Anderson

Courage

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

- Maya Angelou

Strength

"To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that."

- Teresa of Ávila

Courage

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

- Winston Churchill

Strength

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

- John Quincy Adams

Courage

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

- Michel de Montaigne

Strength

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

- Albert Camus

Resilience

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

- Anaïs Nin

Courage

"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

Courage

"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."

- Criss Jami

Strength

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Don’t give into your fears, if you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart."

- Paulo Coelho

Courage

"It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."

- Seneca

Courage

"We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

- Marianne Williamson

Courage

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

Courage

"Courage does not always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage

"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

Strength

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

- Usain Bolt

Achievement

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

- Kahlil Gibran

Strength

"I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

- George Eliot

Growth

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

- Roy T. Bennett

Positivity

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

- John H. Zenger

Leadership

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

- Alberto Juantorena

Strength

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

- Louisa May Alcott

Belief

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"I like criticism. It makes you strong."

- LeBron James

Strength

"As for courage and will — we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead."

- Andre Norton

Courage

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love

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

- Bram Stoker

Resilience

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

- Vernon Howard

Courage

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

- John F. Kennedy

Strength

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

- Francis de Sales

Strength

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

- Booker T. Washington

Strength

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

Strength

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for."

- G.T. Shedd

Courage

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

- Pink

Strength

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"FEAR has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run. Face Everything And Rise."

Courage

"Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity."

Courage