Strength Quotes & Thoughts

Inner Strength

1. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." – Mahatma Gandhi
2. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." – Eleanor Roosevelt
3. "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided." – J.K. Rowling
4. "Courage is grace under pressure." – Ernest Hemingway
5. "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." – Ernest Hemingway
6. "Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli
7. "Tough times never last, but tough people do." – Robert H. Schuller
8. "The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance." – Jodi Picoult
9. "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
10. "You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice." – Bob Marley

Physical Strength

1. "Strength is the product of struggle; you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't." – Henry Rollins
2. "True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart." – Unknown
3. "There’s a moment in fighting when strength of muscle becomes less important than strength of mind." – Lance Armstrong
4. "Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear." – Unknown
5. "To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." – Buddha
6. "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths." – Arnold Schwarzenegger
7. "The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character." – Arnold Schwarzenegger
8. "Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity." – John F. Kennedy
9. "A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health." – Dalai Lama
10. "Strength shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Emotional Strength

1. "Emotional strength is the only real strength a human being can achieve." – Unknown
2. "The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about." – Unknown
3. "Strength isn’t about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences." – Jenny Trout
4. "One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart." – Linda Poindexter
5. "The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived." – Robert Jordan
6. "The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths." – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
7. "Our strength grows out of our weaknesses." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. "Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness." – Susan Gale
9. "Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge." – Eckhart Tolle
10. "Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance." – Rodney A. Winters

Mental Strength

1. "You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." – Marcus Aurelius
2. "The mind is everything. What you think you become." – Buddha
3. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
4. "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." – Edmund Hillary
5. "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." – Molière
6. "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." – Roy T. Bennett
7. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius
8. "Strength is not the absence of fear. It’s overcoming it." – Unknown
9. "Persist until something happens." – Unknown
10. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." – Henry Ford

Resilience

1. "Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up." – Mary Holloway
2. "The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat." – Woodrow Wilson
3. "A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence." – James N. Watkins
4. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb
5. "Resilience is about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive." – Jamais Cascio
6. "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling
7. "I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." – Maya Angelou
8. "Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems." – Gever Tulley
9. "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." – Albert Camus
10. "Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." – Tori Amos

Strength in Adversity

1. "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." – C.S. Lewis
2. "Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be." – Arthur Golden
3. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." – Albert Einstein
4. "The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity." – Seneca
5. "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." – Molière
6. "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." – Seneca
7. "Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey
8. "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." – William Arthur Ward
9. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." – Napoleon Hill

Strength in Unity

1. "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." – Helen Keller
2. "Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." – Mattie Stepanek
3. "Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results." – Ifeanyi Onuoha
4. "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." – Ryunosuke Satoro
5. "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." – Phil Jackson
6. "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." – Aristotle
7. "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." – Henry Ford
8. "None of us is as smart as all of us." – Ken Blanchard
9. "Strength lies in differences, not in similarities." – Stephen R. Covey
10. "In union there is strength." – Aesop

Strength in Positivity

1. "Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." – Shiv Khera
2. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman
3. "It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive." – Ellen DeGeneres
4. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." – Helen Keller
5. "Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." – William James
6. "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses." – Alphonse Karr
7. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James
8. "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." – Winston Churchill
9. "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results." – Willie Nelson
10. "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." – Maya Angelou

Strength in Change

1. "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." – Alan Watts
2. "Change is not painful. Resistance to change is." – Buddha
3. "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." – Socrates
4. "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." – Winston Churchill
5. "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." – Jim Rohn
6. "All great changes are preceded by chaos." – Deepak Chopra
7. "Change your thoughts and you change your world." – Norman Vincent Peale
8. "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." – Seneca
9. "Change before you have to." – Jack Welch
10. "Things do not change; we change." – Henry David Thoreau