Quotes about strength can help you recognize your inner potential and develop that unforgiving willpower that would eventually be the wind beneath your wings. Sometimes to pursue our dreams, all that we need is a little push, and that push can come from a random quote at any random place.
Life is definitely hard, and when you have an impossible goal, the mission becomes even harder. These strength quotes can provide you with the courage and willpower to keep pushing yourself for your ideal, even when the whole world stands on the sidewalks and decides to laugh at your ideologies.
Strength Quotes
What hurts you today makes you stronger tomorrow.
Unknown
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
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot, and hang on.
Thomas Jefferson
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
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Inspiring Quotes
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
Change yourself – you are in control.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, and the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon Howard
I like criticism. It makes you strong.
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
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Being Strong Quotes
Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.
Unknown
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.
Unknown
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
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them that’s what makes you strong.
Sarah Dessen
You gain strength, courage, and confidence through every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Quotations About Being Strong
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
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
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
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Strong Sayings
Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, ‘Get the hell out of my way; I’ve got things to do.
Unknown
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
Louise Erdrich
If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there. You must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Quotes About Strength
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
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong, and I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn
Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
Susan Gale
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Be very strong, be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.
Alberto Juantorena
Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
Unknown
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
Strength Bible Verses
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:26
So do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7
I love you, Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalm 18:1-2
But I will sing of your strength,
in the morning I will sing of your love;
for you are my fortress,
my refuge in times of trouble.
Psalm 59:16
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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