Nov. 4, 2024, 7:45 a.m.
In a world brimming with constant change and challenges, sometimes all it takes is a few words to ignite the spark within us. Whether you're seeking motivation to start your day, encouragement during tough times, or a fresh perspective on life's journey, powerful quotes can offer just the inspiration you need. We've gathered a collection of 41 compelling quotes that have the potential to uplift your spirit and resonate with your innermost thoughts. Join us as we explore these nuggets of wisdom, offering perspectives from great minds across the ages, each encapsulating a moment of clarity and strength. Let these words be the guiding light that transforms your thoughts and fuels your path to empowerment.
1. “So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. “A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission.” - Santosh Kalwar
3. “Strong-willed heart, always makes me feel so touched. It reminds me about some 'fall and rise again' in my life.” - Toba Beta
4. “Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]
5. “Strong words resonate.” - Toba Beta
6. “Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that’s to always learn from it.” - Raven Symone
7. “Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.” - Carlos Barrios
8. “If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?” - Deb Caletti
9. “Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.” - Deb Caletti
10. “You praise man who has the ability to perform great actions.I admire man who can deal with great pain and knows no despair.” - Toba Beta
11. “It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.” - Nicholas Sparks
12. “We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you wouldn't fight against an evil like that. It was so black and white on our side, and on our side so few died. (Our side meaning the lantern-jawed John Wayne Greatest Generation constantly canonized soldiers who strode in late to the graveyard that was Europe. Compared to Jewish, Russian, Roma, and other casualties, our losses were minimal.) We felt so strong. In some ways I think we're always trying to recapture that feeling of being a country of superheroes. With every war we invoke that one, we hope it will be that good. -from her blog” - Catherynne M. Valente
13. “If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.” - Criss Jami
14. “Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.” - Criss Jami
15. “Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great command!” - John Milton
16. “...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)” - J.D. Robb
17. “The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!” - Anne Frank
18. “And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.” - Nora Roberts
19. “Surely you ain't weak.You just can't accept yourself as a strong person.” - Toba Beta
20. “...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.” - Pearl Cleage
21. “When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don't get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help.” - Lori Goodwin
22. “The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes.” - Habeeb Akande
23. “Strong people don't put others down... They lift them up.” - Michael P. Watson
24. “It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be.” - Marilyn Fullen-Collins
25. “No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.” - Lights Poxlietner
26. “I realize the simple truth is that power isn’t control at all- power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.” - Beth Revis
27. “We must stay strong so we can keep going.” - Michelle Shen
28. “There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.” - Jane Lindskold
29. “It was easier being strong when another man was strong enough to be weak.” - Aleksandr Voinov
30. “She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.” - Shannon A Thompson
31. “You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.” - Lisa Cach
32. “I'm thankful because I'm still alive. I'm thankful because I lived the mantra, Only The Strong Survive. I'm thankful because I have Chris Ann. And that has made all the difference. And it always will.It always gets better. I told you so...” - Jamie Schoffman
33. “The strong were always eating the weak.” - James Rollins
34. “I have cancer. Cancer doesn't have me.” - Marco Calderon
35. “Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.” - Paul Hoffman
36. “Тhe gentle overcomes the rigid.The slow overcomes the fast.The weak overcomes the strong."…"Everyone knows that the yielding overcomes the stiff,and the soft overcomes the hard.Yet no one applies this knowledge.” - Lao Tzu
37. “Safe wasn't quite what appealed to her right then. Safe wasn't how she felt. Invincible, in control, powerful- those words felt closer to true.” - Melissa Marr
38. “Parents need to realize that the world is getting complicated every second. With new problems, new diseases, new habits. They have to realize the vast probability of their kids being victims of this age, this complicated era. Your kids could be exposed to problems that no kind of therapy can help. Your kids could be brainwashed by themselves to believe in insane theories that drive them crazy. Most kids will go through this stage. The lucky ones will understand. They will grow out of them. The most unlucky ones will live in these problems. Grow in them and never move forward. They will cut themselves, overdose on drugs, take up excessive drinking and smoking, for the slightest problems in their lives. You can't blame these kids for not being thankful or satisfied with what they have. Their mentality eludes them from the reality.” - Thisuri Wanniarachchi
39. “No weekend, all weakened.” - Toba Beta
40. “But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.” - Bram Stoker
41. “The strong survive.” - Ann Aguirre