Strength Quotes

Tough times are inevitable, and this is a fact many of us don’t actively try to face. These tough times can come in various forms like going through a divorce or breakup, losing a loved one, financial hardship, job loss or struggling to overcome a life challenge. We have compiled an array of strength quotes to help you reclaim your inner strength when you need it.

In this article, you will find quotes about strength, these quotes will remind you to remain steadfast and strong through the toughest phase of life.

50 Quotes About Strength & Being Strong

“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

“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”
– Susan Gale

“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”– Alex Karras

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”– Mahatma Gandhi

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”– Christopher Reeve

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. Bob Marley

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. Henry Rollins

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Charles Dickens

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran

“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

“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” —Booker T. Washington

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
– Sarah Dessen

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”– Og Mandino

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”– Wayne Dyer

Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. T.S. Eliot

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. Eleanor Roosevelt

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. Peter Marshall

“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

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength”– Oprah

“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” —Vernon Howard

“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”– Unknown

“Concentration is the secret of strength.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. Albert Schweitzer

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fools give up fast. Strong men persevere. The wise keep going forever.

“There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.”No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.” – Dalai Lama

“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

“I like criticism. It makes you strong.” —LeBron James

“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

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” —Napoleon Hill

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. Louis Pasteur

Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation. Michael Jordan

“Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of those pieces.”– Judith Viorst

“Be very strong… be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.” —Alberto Juantorena

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. Socrates

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore

“There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.” —Usain Bolt

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”– J.K. Rowling

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
– Napoléon Bonaparte

“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

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” – William Ellery Channing