In a world where challenges are an inevitable part of life, finding sources of inspiration and strength can be vital to pushing through difficult times. Whether you're facing personal hurdles, professional obstacles, or seeking daily motivation, words have the power to uplift and empower us. This carefully curated collection of 116 inspiring quotes on strength is designed to offer support, ignite resilience, and reinforce the inner courage we all possess. As you navigate through these quotes, may you discover the encouragement you need to harness your inner strength and face each day with renewed confidence and determination.
1. “All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
2. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” - Maya Angelou
3. “God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.” - Charlotte Brontë
4. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” - Mahatma Gandhi
5. “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.” - Judith Viorst
6. “Women are never so strong as after their defeat.” - Alexandre Dumas
7. “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” - Mahatma Gandhi
8. “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
9. “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.” - Dalai Lama XIV
10. “God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs” - William Cowper
11. “I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” - Henry David Thoreau
12. “God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” - Anonymous
13. “Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.” - Lois McMaster Bujold
14. “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” - John Steinbeck
15. “The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.” - Ursula K. Le Guin
16. “It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails.” - John Steinbeck
17. “The strong times, the weak times-- they all come in waves. Trust me, none of us has it together.” - Timothy James Beck
18. “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
19. “We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God. ” - Sheri L. Dew
20. “Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.” - Zainab Salbi
21. “I know that you are a mere flea! I know that you need only be squashed to be done away with! I know that I have fought this same battle a thousand thousand times before...but, perhaps this time I can crush you like the insect you are!” - Marv Wolfman
22. “I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.” - Jennifer Donnelly
23. “God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals” - Mario Puzo
24. “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9” - Anonymous
25. “(The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has led him to work for his own improvement; if the second it has led him to acknowledge his own weakness. Sooner or later, the unpleasant consequences of such weakness will lead him to grapple with it, and develop his power of will...Immediately and directly, it may either strengthen him or weaken him. Ultimately, it can only strengthen him.” - Paul Brunton
26. “The same everlasting Father who cares for you today will care for you tomorrow and every day.Either he will shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.Be at peace then and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginings.” - Francis de Sales
27. “There is a certain strength in being alone.” - Heather Duffy Stone
28. “She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything.” - Rachel Klein
29. “Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.” - Ralph W. Sockman
30. “Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.” - John Bunyan
31. “What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.” - Jane Austen
32. “Though these young men unhappily fail tounderstand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest ofall sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years oftheir seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiplytenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have setbefore them as their goal--such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strengthof many of them. ” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
33. “I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.” - Queen Elizabeth I
34. “Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.” - Andrew Solomon
35. “Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.” - Stephen King
36. “Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
37. “The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield, and the horn of my salvation; my stronghold.” - Anonymous
38. “when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.” - Mariah Carey
39. “The witch reached into the picnic basket and pulled out a light brown chamois bag about the size of a playing card. “Maybe this will help you. It’ll boost your self-esteem.”Now we’re getting somewhere. Riley took the bag and opened it. She looked to the bottom to find … nothing.“Ah, it’s empty.”“Of course,” Ayden replied. “It’s up to you to fill it. Find things that mean something to you, that represent times where you’ve overcome an obstacle, learned something important. Put those items in the bag and they’ll help you find your strength.” - Jana Oliver
40. “Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.” - C. JoyBell C.
41. “I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!” - C. JoyBell C.
42. “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” - C. JoyBell C.
43. “Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?” - Thomas Hardy
44. “A good reading strengthens the soul.” - Toba Beta
45. “I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength” - Adam Young
46. “To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]” - Mahatma Gandhi
47. “[I]n any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.” - W.E.B. Du Bois
48. “You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a predator. Predators prey on gentleness, peace, calmness, sweetness and any positivity that they sniff out as weakness. Anything that is happy and at peace they mistake for weakness. It's not your job to change these people, but it's your job to show them that your peace and gentleness do not equate to weakness. I have always appeared to be fragile and delicate but the thing is, I am not fragile and I am not delicate. I am very gentle but I can show you that the gentle also possess a poison. I compare myself to silk. People mistake silk to be weak but a silk handkerchief can protect the wearer from a gunshot. There are many people who will want to befriend you if you fit the description of what they think is weak; predators want to have friends that they can dominate over because that makes them feel strong and important. The truth is that predators have no strength and no courage. It is you who are strong, and it is you who has courage. I have lost many a friend over the fact that when they attempt to rip me, they can't. They accuse me of being deceiving; I am not deceiving, I am just made of silk. It is they who are stupid and wrongly take gentleness and fairness for weakness. There are many more predators in this world, so I want you to be made of silk. You are silk.” - C. JoyBell C.
49. “Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.” - Zack W. Van
50. “You won't," says the Mayor, smiling again. "Everyone knows you aren't a killer, Todd."He pushes Viola forward again -She calls out from the pain of it -Viola, I think -Viola -I grit my teeth and raise the rifle -I cock it -And I say what's true -"I would kill to save her," I say.” - Patrick Ness
51. “But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn’t man or God. It’s something...in the brain.” - Stephen King
52. “It's only as bad as you make it.” - Benjamin J. Carey
53. “There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.” - J.K. Rowling
54. “When he was kidnapped by the Iron King and taken into the Nevernever, she didn’t hesitate to go after him. And she didn’t stop there. When her magic was sealed by Mab, leaving her defenseless in the Winter Court, she somehow managed to survive, even when she thought you had turned on her. When the Scepter of the Seasons was stolen by the Iron fey, she went after it, despite having no magic and no weapon with which to defend herself. And when the courts asked her to destroy the false king, she accepted, even though the Summer and Iron glamours within her were making her sick, and she couldn’t use either of them effectively. She still went into the Iron Kingdom toface a tyrant she didn’t know if she could overcome.“Now,” Ariella finished, turning toward me, “do you still believe humans are weak?” - Julie Kagawa
55. “If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.” - Paulo Coelho
56. “The sky is not my limit...I am.” - T.F. Hodge
57. “at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.” - Cecelia Ahern
58. “It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.” - Criss Jami
59. “To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?” - Criss Jami
60. “Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.” - Jim Beaver
61. “I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.” - Leo Rosten
62. “Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.” - Robert Heller
63. “Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.” - Aberjhani
64. “When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
65. “There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.” - Criss Jami
66. “...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.” - Audre Lorde
67. “It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn't it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping and jeering once and for all? Couldn't we live without them? Couldn't we earn our living and manage our affairs without help from them? Come on, let's wake up, and claim back our freedom, and the honour and dignity that they have usurped from us for so long. Do you think that if we really put our minds to it, we would be lacking the courage to defend ourselves, the strength to fend for ourselves, or the talents to earn our own living? Let's take our courage into our hands and do it, and then we can leave it up to them to mend their ways as much as they can: we shan't really care what the outcome is, just as long as we are no longer subjugated to them.” - Moderata Fonte
68. “[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.” - Christine de Pizan
69. “Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual.” - Nicholas A. McGirr
70. “They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” - Patricia Christian Punches
71. “You're not completely alone, you have me! Even if the entire world turns its back on you, you'll still be the strongest as long as you have me!” - Kyo Shirodaira
72. “No te averguences por lo que otros, más cobardes y más ciegos, opinen de ti. Porque esa es su debilidad, no la tuya” - Marisa Rubio
73. “I have a theory about how she might have managed to pull off such a feat. It comes in the form of an equation: Love + Fear = Herculean Strength. It’s how mothers come to fling runaway motorcars from their children.” - Franny Billingsley
74. “I believe in going with the flow. I don't believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow. But it has to be your river, not someone else's. Everyone has their own river, and you don't need to swim,float,sail on their's, but you need to be in your own river and you need to go with it. And I don't believe in fighting the wind. You go and you fly with your wind. Let everyone else catch their own gusts of wind and let them fly with their own gusts of wind, and you go and you fly with yours.” - C. JoyBell C.
75. “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” - Isaac Asimov
76. “Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” - Vicki Harrison
77. “As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires.” - C. JoyBell C.
78. “...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was...” - Terry Pratchett
79. “The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.” - Wael Ghonim
80. “Never believe for a second that your weak, within all of us we have a reserve of inner hidden strength,” - Victoria Addino
81. “My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!” - J.R.R. Tolkien
82. “It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That's growth!” - Yvonne Pierre
83. “Just because I’m human doesn’t mean I’m weak.” - Jennifer L. Armentrout
84. “I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.” - Veronica Roth
85. “You're mine, Echo, and I'll treasure you forever.” - Nadège Richards
86. “Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.” - Criss Jami
87. “Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.” - Alice Walker
88. “What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic.” - Kelli Jae Baeli
89. “A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
90. “sometimes the only thing wrong with you is thinking something's wrong with you.” - brenda mazzarella
91. “Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.” - Leo Tolstoy
92. “You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.” - Nastia Liukin
93. “If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.” - Marie Lu
94. “We are designed with a dreaming brain and a hopeful spirit; it is our nature to envision the life of our dreams. And while dreaming comes easy to us, we must never forget that it takes strength, dedication, and courageous action to bring that dream to life” - Steve Maraboli
95. “Strength is not just in muscle and bone," Rovender said"That is right," Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful.” - Tony DiTerlizzi
96. “Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible.” - Carter Dickson
97. “I've lost a lot in my long life. Yes, I've seen pain and I've seen strife. But I'll never give up; I'll never let go. Because I'll always have my ray of hope.” - Colleen Hoover
98. “Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?” - Peter Maher
99. “I have to learn to find that inner core of strength that I am definitely made up of and stretch it into areas where I don't always use it.” - Jodie Andrefski
100. “Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a glass that ran;Pleasure, with pain for leaven;Summer, with flowers that fell;Remembrance, fallen from heaven,And madness risen from hell;Strength without hands to smite;Love that endures for a breath;Night, the shadow of light,And Life, the shadow of death.” - Algernon Charles Swinburne
101. “And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're smart or that you try really hard at everything you do. I think you'd still deserve to walk with your head held high.” - Hiro Fujiwara
102. “When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.” - Hayley and Michael DiMarco
103. “She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.” - Thornton Wilder
104. “He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.” - Ben Jonson
105. “We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.” - Mark Lawrence
106. “If you will but aspireYou will attain to all that you desire.Before an atom of such need the SunSeems dim and mirky by comparison.It is life's strength, the wings by which we flyBeyond the further reaches of the sky.” - Attar of Nishapur
107. “It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not like the fish on the quay, fresh caught, lying flipping and flopping, death on a simmer. This was a fierce, boiling death. She died thrashing blindly in a slick of gore, full of pain and fury, gnashing her jaws, beating her tail, spewing lumps of slime and half-digested fish that fell stinking about us. It was vile. So much strength dies slowly.” - Carol Birch
108. “All because I fell in love with a madman.” - Carrie Butler
109. “On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.” - Elizabeth Gaskell
110. “The strength of a woman far exceeds the brawn of a man. ~Lisa Antonio” - Lisa Antonio
111. “In a way that I haven’t yet figured out how to fully articulate, I believe that children who get to see bald eagles, coyotes, deer, moose, grouse, and other similar sights each morning will have a certain kind of matrix or fabric or foundation of childhood, the nature and quality of which will be increasing rare and valuable as time goes on, and which will be cherished into adulthood, as well as becoming- and this is a leap of faith by me- a source of strength and knowledge to them somehow. That the daily witnessing of the natural wonders is a kind of education of logic and assurance that cannot be duplicated by any other means, or in other place: unique and significant, and, by God, still somehow relevant, even now, in the twenty-first century. For as long as possible, I want my girls to keep believing that beauty, though not quite commonplace and never to pass unobserved or unappreciated, is nonetheless easily witnessed on any day, in any given moment, around any forthcoming bend. And that the wild world has a lovely order and pattern and logic, even in the shouting, disorderly chaos of breaking-apart May and reassembling May. That if there can be a logic an order even in May, then there can be in all seasons and all things.” - Rick Bass
112. “But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.” - Bram Stoker
113. “Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.” - Kristin Cashore
114. “Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.” - Ana Monnar
115. “The image that comes to mind is a boxing ring. There are times when...you just want that bell to ring, but you're the one who's losing. The one who's winning doesn't have that feeling. Do you have the energy and strength to face life? Life can ask more of you than you are willing to give. And then you say, 'Life is not something that should have been. I'm not going to play the game. I'm going to meditate. I'm going to call "out".'There are three positions possible. One is the up-to-it, and facing the game and playing through. The second is saying, Absolutely not. I don't want to stay in this dogfight. That's the absolute out. The third position is the one that says, This is mixed of good and evil. I'm on the side of the good. I accept the world with corrections. And may [the world] be the way I like it. And it's good for me and my friends. There are only the three positions.” - Joseph Campbell
116. “Shizuo Heiwajima, the strongest man in Ikebukuro: "I just want the ability to control myself. That's the kind of strength I want.” - Ryohgo Narita
