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When you’re down or defeated and feel like nothing could turn your day around, don’t underestimate the power of a good quote about strength to get you through. The thought of reading a few as affirmations may sound corny, but the lightness they can shed on a dark mental fog is always surprising and refreshing—it’s helpful to know that you’re not alone. Everyone needs help tapping into their well of inner strength at some point, and there’s nothing wrong with reading a few lines that resonate to nudge you closer to yours.
Below, read all different types of quotes about strength. Bookmark your favorites and come back to them whenever you need (and browse our favorite life quotes, self love quotes, and motivational quotes too!)
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Quotes about strength in hard times
- “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” —Oprah Winfrey
- “To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.” —Samuel Johnson
- “There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.” —Mother Teresa
- “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” —Steve Maraboli
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” —Christopher Reeve
- “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” —John H. Zenger
- “That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.” —Kahlil Gibran
- “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” —Mahatma Gandhi
- “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” —Drew Barrymore
- “You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” —Marcus Aurelius
- “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by 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
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” ―Helen Keller
- “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.” —Venus Williams
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” —Khalil Gibran
- “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” —Ernest Hemingway
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Quotes about strength and courage
- “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” —George Whitefield
- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” —Mark Twain
- “Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” —Misty Copeland
- “Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.” —Gillian Anderson
- “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
- “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
- “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.
- “You’ve got to be brave and you’ve got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what’s right and what’s wrong, what’s good and what’s bad.”—Robert Frost
- “We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook.” —Haile Selassie
- “Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway.” —Cheryl Strayed
- “There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” —Amanda Gorman
- “Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.” —Anaïs Nin
- “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” —Georgia O’Keeffe
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” —Rosa Parks
- “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
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Short quotes about strength
- “I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” —George Eliot
- “You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.” —Bob Marley
- “Life is tough my darling, but so are you.” —Stephanie Bennett Henry
- “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.” —Walt Disney
- “The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.” —Maya Angelou
- “If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.” —John F. Kennedy
- “When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.” —Winston Churchill
- “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it’s right.” —Rosa Parks
- “It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature.” —Bram Stoker, Dracula
- “Valor is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul.” —Michel de Montaigne
- “Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” —Theodore Roosevelt
- “Conquering others is power; conquering oneself is strength.” —Lao Tzu
- “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” ―J.R.R. Tolkien
- “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, Pride and Prejudice
- “We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.” —Isabel Allende
- “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.” —Audrey Hepburn
- “What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.” —Meryl Streep
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” —Mahatma Gandhi
- “The soul is stronger than its surroundings.” —William James
- “If you own this story you get to write the ending.” —Brené Brown
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Quotes about strength and love
- “The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “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
- “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” —Maya Angelou
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
- “Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.” —Demi Lovato
- “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” ―Ella Fitzgerald100 Friendship Quotes20 Breast Cancer Quotes to Bookmark
