83 Strength Quotes

In life's journey, strength can often be our most valuable ally, guiding us through challenges, bolstering our resilience, and inspiring us to reach new heights. Whether you're seeking motivation for a personal struggle, looking to empower a friend, or simply in need of a mental boost, there’s nothing quite like the right words to fortify your spirit. In this collection, we’ve curated 83 of the most powerful strength quotes from thinkers, leaders, and visionaries. Each quote has been selected to provide wisdom, encouragement, and the inner fortitude that comes with embracing your true strength. Let's dive in and uncover the words that can ignite your inner power and fuel your journey forward.

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. “Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]” - Charles de Gaulle

3. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” - Mahatma Gandhi

4. “Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.” - Billy Graham

5. “We acquire the strength we have overcome.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” - Ann Landers

7. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” - Mahatma Gandhi

8. “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

9. “It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage.” - Lois Lenski

10. “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” - John Steinbeck

11. “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

12. “Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.” - Euripides

13. “Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.” - Barack Obama

14. “Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.” - May Sarton

15. “Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his.The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.” - Kristin Cashore

16. “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

17. “Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.” - Joss Whedon

18. “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]” - John F. Kennedy

19. “A quiet conscience makes one strong!” - Anne Frank

20. “You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!” - Queen Latifah

21. “when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. 'The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.' ” - Kate Chopin

22. “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” - William Feather

23. “Ya no va a dolerme el mar,porque conocí la fuente.” - Gilberto Owen

24. “You want science and studies? Fuck you. I’ve got scars and blood and vomit.” - Jim Wendler

25. “I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.” - Leni Riefenstahl

26. “George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.” - Christopher Isherwood

27. “I'd run my whole life long to reach you; paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific; traverse Jungle and Desert to find you; climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you.” - Heather Kristina Thomas

28. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

29. “Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.” - Michel de Montaigne

30. “Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.” - Henry David Thoreau

31. “She was stronger alone…” - Jane Austen

32. “It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.” - Ottilie Weber

33. “Coercing attitude drains your strength.” - Toba Beta

34. “Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.” - Aberjhani

35. “They’d scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.” - Paula Mclain

36. “The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!” - T.F. Hodge

37. “The sky is not my limit...I am.” - T.F. Hodge

38. “of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.” - G.K. Chesterton

39. “It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.” - Criss Jami

40. “You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.” - Dee Remy

41. “Be very careful what you try with that.  I’m not as strong as I should be.” His breath was ragged, and irregular.  “And you are stronger than you know.” - Tyra Lynn

42. “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” - Criss Jami

43. “I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.” - Criss Jami

44. “I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.” - Leo Rosten

45. “To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.” - O. R. Melling

46. “Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?” - Bisco Hatori

47. “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

48. “The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives.” - Christine de Pizan

49. “The path i walk lights up in flames” - R. Karim

50. “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

51. “I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.” - Jennifer Armintrout

52. “silence is not weakness and decency is not pride” - Arthur Machen

53. “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

54. “The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.” - Haruki Murakami

55. “I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.” - Richelle Mead

56. “That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?” - John Osborne

57. “Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night... Yet when she slept that night, she dreamt the dragon dream again. Viserys was not in it this time. There was only her and the dragon. Its scales were black as night, wet and slick with blood. Her blood, Dany sensed. Its eyes were pools of molten magma and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. She could hear it singing to her. She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean. She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. She felt strong and new and fierce. And the next day, strangely, she did not seem to hurt quite as much.” - George R.R. Martin

58. “What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.” - Hiroko Sakai

59. “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

60. “They are the people of creation. Their maker…gives them the sky to carry because they are so strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head.” - Edwidge Danticat

61. “the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.” - Evan Meekins

62. “The Islamic revolution in Iran is a positive development.At the same time, the Islamic revolution of Afghanistan, sprung exclusively fromspiritual roots, dealt a heavy blow to the communist regime in the former Soviet Union. In face of that revolution, the red Soviet empire had to concede that it is incapable, in spite of its military superiority, to defeat the Mujaheddin, whose main weapons were their right and their spiritual strength.Another quite new situation appeared as a consequence of the Islamic revolution in Iran, that destroyed the Zionist rule in that country and shook its foundations in that part of the world. Khomeini's letter to Gorbachev, in which he was inviting the latter to convert to Islam, had great symbolic power! What is new again is the movement of Islamic rebirth and the continuous decay of the strength of the colonial government bodies directed from afar by Israel in many Islamic countries.""The Islamic system has remained stable in Iran even after the death of Khomeini and the change in the person of the leader and of the leadership group the only one to remain stable in the entire Islamic world.On the contrary, the demise of the Shah meant at the same time the collapse of hisregime, his artificial form of government, and his army. All that went to the dust-bin ofhistory. The same fate awaits the other regimes that prevail in the muslim world. Israel knows that very well. She tries desperately to cause the wheel of history to stand still. However, any strike against Iran or against the growing Islamic movements, will cause the anger of the muslim masses to grow, and the fire of the Islamic revolution to ignite. Nobody will be able to suppress that revolution.” - Otto Ernst Remer

63. “Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.” - Emil Dorian

64. “Women already come equipped with a core of steel fiber strength, depths of resolve a man cannot comprehend. It’s not the dynamic strength men have, all power and show. It’s a strength of endurance, fortitude. It is the strength that allows women to conceive life and to carry that life until the day it can stand on its own.” - James R. Tuck

65. “Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage...” - Robert Olmstead

66. “For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.” - Criss Jami

67. “Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.” - E.H. Chapin

68. “I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the beauty later.” - Ravindra Shukla

69. “Strength is not just in muscle and bone," Rovender said"That is right," Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful.” - Tony DiTerlizzi

70. “Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other--that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there.” - Colleen Hoover

71. “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

72. “God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror!” - Yvonne Pierre

73. “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

74. “When we first believe we think we can do it all; our passion is so strong. But after a time we start to learn that passion doesn't equal strength, and our sinful nature rears its ugly head.” - Hayley and Michael DiMarco

75. “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

76. “You make the world come alive. You make the world colorful. You are the inspiration behind all that happens. You are the pillar of strength to many around you, the centrifugal force of your own little world, called family. I love being a women and celebrate being one everyday, hope you all do too!! And to all those who battle their various circumstances, the hurdles, the sacrifices and the compromises they make, wish them all inner strength! Happy Women's Day!” - Deeba Salim Irfan

77. “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

78. “One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.” - Carrie Butler

79. “I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.” - Will Schwalbe

80. “Believers are achievers, therefore believe and achieve!• Believe that you are responsible for your own accomplishments God deposited in you!• Believe that success is not luck; it is the result a deliberate effort to do a hard work!• Believe that prayer works through faith and action!• Believe that great people took great steps. Weak people took weak steps!• Believe that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you!” - Israelmore Ayivor

81. “If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.” - Haruki Murakami

82. “When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith....” - E.A. Bucchianeri

83. “Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need.” - K.L. Toth