3323+ inspirational quotes about strength 2025

short inspirational quotes about strength 2025

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

Strength is a matter of a made up mind. John Beecher

Don’t give up the fight. Stand up for your rights. Bob Marley

Better to fight and fall than to live without hope. Volsunga

People do not lack strength, they lack will. Victor Hugo

Strength doesn’t come from winning. Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you have no struggles, you’ll have no strength. Tim Fargo

Adversity is the first path to truth. Lord Byron

You are the only you there is and ever will be. Jen Sincero (You Are A Badass)

Heroism is endurance for one moment more. George F. Kennan

Problems are the price you pay for progress. Branch Rickey

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance. Lisa Murkowski

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage. Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. Alexander Pope

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Joseph Kennedy

This too shall pass away. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past. Atticus

Growth is overrated. Endurance is underrated. Shane Parrish

I realized that my strength was being different. Betsey Johnson

Problems are messages. Shakti Gawain

Storms make trees take deeper roots. Unknown

You are never given anything in this world that you can’t handle. Unknown

Falling down is an accident. Staying down is a choice. Unknown

What you allow is what will continue. Unknown

Normalize being a little crazy for what you believe in. Maxime Lagacé

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

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Edmund Hillary

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

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Ovid

The more you care, the stronger you can be. Jim Rohn

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

A few thoughts on strength…

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life inspirational quotes about strength 2025

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. John C. Maxwell

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. Muhammad Ali

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

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

It will never be perfect. Make it work. Life

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot

Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. Bruce Lee

It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop. – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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.

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

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

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. – Ralph

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. Anais Nin

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Bruce Lee

Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life. – J.K. Rowling

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. – Bernice Johnson Reagon

hard time inspirational quotes about strength 2025

Never give up. Great things take time. Frank Zane

Tough times never last, but tough people do. Robert H. Schuller

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.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems. – Gever Tulley

Patience and time do more than strength or passion. Jean de La Fontaine

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it. Dawna Markova

Do you realize that without tough times, without struggles, you wouldn’t have the chance to get stronger?

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Hermann Hesse

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.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela

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

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. – Nelson Mandela

Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. Winston Churchill

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

I would encourage us all, African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Whites, Native Americans to study history. I long for the time when all the human history is taught as one history. I am stronger because you are stronger. I am weaker if you are weak. So we are more alike than we are unlike. Maya Angelou

struggles inspirational quotes about strength 2025

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Robert Tew

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is true strength. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. – Oprah Winfrey

Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

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.

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.

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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.

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

moving forward inspirational quotes about strength 2025

Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward

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

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future

You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward

Change has to come for life to struggle forward

Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?

We will either find a way, or make one.

Grief and resilience live together.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. – Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. – Bob Marley

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

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – A. A. Milne

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. – Socrates

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie

Be strong. You never know who you are inspiring. – Unknown

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. – Maya Angelou

Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There’s no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough. – Carly Patterson

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. – Lao Tzu

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I know it can be something hard to hear when you’re actually dealing with something truly devastating.

But in the end, if you have the right mental attitude, hardships can act as the stepping stones you need to attain higher levels, in the long term.

It is because of them that you’ll get stronger, not in spite of them.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

The past is your lesson. The present is your gift. The future is your motivation. Unknown

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

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran

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

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. Martin Luther King Jr

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

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want. Mike Tyson

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

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Leonardo da Vinci

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. Thomas A. Edison

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character. Arnold Palmer

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

The only thing that can stop me, is me. Unknown

Remember, when you forgive, you heal. And when you let go, you grow. Unknown

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have. Norman Vincent Peale

Leverage the strength that you have: that no one else can be you. Todd Wheatland

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young. Bob Dylan

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. J.R.R. Tolkien

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about. Unknown

Perhaps I am stronger than I think. Thomas Merton

Be gentle with yourself. You’re doing the best you can. Unknown

courage inspirational quotes about strength 2025

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. Malala Yousafzai

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

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

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle

There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. Woody Hayes

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 done well. Vincent van Gogh

Yielding will overcome anything superior to itself; its strength is boundless. Bruce Lee

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

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine

A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence. 14th Dalai Lama

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. Oprah Winfrey

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

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it. Winston Churchill

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

inspirational quotes about strength for her 2025

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Unknown

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

Smiles can hide so much; fear, pain, sadness, tears. But than again they reflect one thing: strength. Unknown

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. Niccolò Machiavelli

In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain; either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow. Friedrich Nietzsche

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. Iain Thomas

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman

The man who has done his best has done everything. Charles M. Schwab

I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me. Joshua Graham

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. Charles Dickens

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. Stephen R. Covey

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. Rikki Rogers

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. Francis De Sales

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. Cesar Chavez

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. Lillian Hellman

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack. Seneca

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

The strength in power is knowing when not to use it. Unknown

Strength is nothing more than how well you hide the pain. Unknown

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. John Ruskin

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. Oscar Wilde

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. John Locke

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. William Shakespeare

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. Marilyn vos Savant

Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well. Neil Strauss

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche

Humility teaches courage. Weakness teaches strength. And grief teaches love. So you must treasure them, not hate yourself for them. Umair Haque

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. Hal Borland

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud. Russell Brand

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. Japanese proverb

Humility to learn. Strength to endure. Vision to transform. Will to act. Virtue to act rightly. Wisdom to accept the inevitable. The Stoic Emperor

Accepting the inevitable is the beginning of strength and freedom. Embrace all chaos that is out of your control. This is how it is. Why should it be otherwise? The Stoic Emperor

The strongest is he that makes use of his opponent’s strength — be the bamboo tree which bends toward the wind; and when the wind ceases, it springs back stronger than before. Bruce Lee

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization. James Cash Penney

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. Richard L. Evans

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. Jewish proverb

One may go a long way after one is tired. French proverb

God gave burdens, also shoulders. Yiddish proverb

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." – Martin Luther King Jr

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. – Maya Angelou

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't – surrender to events with hope. – Alain de Botton

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it. – Epictetus

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. – Greg Kincaid

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

Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. – Mary Oliver

unique inspirational quotes about strength 2025

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. – Thomas A. Edison

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance. – Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be

removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. – Isabel Allende

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

We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine. – Mark Nepo

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

Do what is right, not what is easy. Roy T. Bennett

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. – Swami Vivekananda

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. – Evangeline Love

Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up. – Rocky Balboa

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