60 Quotes about Strength to Inspire You

Facing uncertainty can be daunting. When challenges arise and the path forward seems unclear, it's normal to feel afraid or lack motivation. Yet adversity is inevitable. As figures like Eleanor Roosevelt and Charles Dickens have reminded us, strength and resilience emerge from weathering storms. Their words offer perspective: we can harness fear rather than be paralyzed by it. Any challenge pales in comparison to the human capacity for perseverance. Even in the darkest moments, there are sources of hope if we shift our mindset. By focusing on the declaration that "this too shall pass," we find the inspiration needed to prevail. Every hardship embodies an opportunity to transform and grow. The next trial may spur self-discovery unimaginable in times of comfort. Though storms will arise, the human spirit can endure and even thrive when faced with uncertainty. We need only wisdom and courage. In times of uncertainty, we hope these quotes give you enough motivation and strength to change your life for the better.

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Inspirational Quotes About Strength

1. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi

2. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

5. "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." - Napoleon Hill

6. "What makes you different or weird, that's your strength." - Meryl Streep

7. "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." - John F. Kennedy

8. "Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." - Steve Maraboli

9. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon

10. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb

Quotes About Strength and Courage

1. "Courage isn't having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don't have strength." - Napoléon Bonaparte

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

3. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E.E. Cummings

4. "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." - Maya Angelou

5. "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali

6. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu

7. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark Twain

8. "It's not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit." - J.R.R. Tolkien

9. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

10. "Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway

Short Quotes About Strength

1. "Strength lies in differences, not in similarities." - Stephen R. Covey

2. "Strength does not come from winning." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

3. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb

4. "Where there is no struggle, there is no strength." - Oprah Winfrey

5. "Strength is a matter of the made-up mind." - John Beecher

6. "Strong convictions precede great actions." - Louisa May Alcott

7. "Our strength grows out of our weaknesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. "Silence is a source of great strength." - Lao Tzu

9. "The real man smiles in trouble." - Thomas Paine

10. "Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts." - Arthur Helps

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Quotes About Strength and Love

1. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu

2. "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." - David Wilkerson

3. "The best love is the one that makes you a better person, without changing you into someone other than yourself." - Unknown

4. "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

5. "Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." - Mother Teresa

6. "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it." - Boris Pasternak

7. "The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness." - William Saroyan

8. "The greatest strength is gentleness." - Iroquois Proverb

9. "A loving heart is the truest wisdom." - Charles Dickens

10. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." - Maya Angelou

Quotes About Hope and Strength

1. "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson

2. "Once you choose hope, anything’s possible." - Christopher Reeve

3. "Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found." - Neil Gaiman

4. "When the world says, 'Give up,' Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'" - Unknown

5. "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." - Desmond Tutu

6. "Hope is a waking dream." - Aristotle

7. "Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear." - Thich Nhat Hanh

8. "Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." - Samuel Smiles

9. "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King Jr.

10. "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

Motivational Quotes About Strength

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

2. "The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived." - Robert Jordan

3. "Strength is not the absence of fear, but the determination to overcome it." - Unknown

4. "The task ahead of you is never greater than the strength within you." - Unknown

5. "Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." - Rikki Rogers

6. "Strength lies in nights of peaceful slumbers." - Maria Montessori

7. "Build upon strengths, and weaknesses will gradually take care of themselves." - Joyce C. Lock

8. "Strength isn't about how much you can handle before you break, it's about how much you can endure after you've been broken." - Unknown

9. "Sometimes strength comes in knowing that you are not alone." - Joe Sacco

10. "True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart." - Unknown