Empowering Quotes on Positivity, Strength, and Courage

"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 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

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"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

"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

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"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

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

- Christopher Reeve

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Marie Curie

"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

"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

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Mark Twain

"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

"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

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

- Brené Brown

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

- Brené Brown

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"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, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

"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

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

- Susan Gale

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

- Sarah Dessen

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Demi Lovato

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Isabel Allende

"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

"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

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

- Mark Nepo

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Napoleon Hill

"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

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Teresa of Ávila

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- John Quincy Adams

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

- Michel de Montaigne

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Anaïs Nin

"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

"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

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

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Seneca

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

- Marianne Williamson

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"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

"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

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

- Usain Bolt

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- George Eliot

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- John H. Zenger

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

- Alberto Juantorena

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"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

"I like criticism. It makes you strong."

- LeBron James

"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

"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

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

- Vernon Howard

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Francis de Sales

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- G.T. Shedd

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

- Pink

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

"Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity."