1. Silence is a source of great strength.

- Lao Tzu

2. 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

3. In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

- Laurence Sterne

4. 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.

- Walt Disney

5. If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Atticus

7. Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

8. The more you care, the stronger you can be.

- Jim Rohn

9. Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

- Alexander Pope

10. You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

- Cayla Mills

11. Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

- John Locke

12. A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

- Marge Piercy

13. You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

- Ken Kessey

14. The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

- Richard L. Evans

15. Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.

- Caroline Myss

16. Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of those pieces.

- Judith Viorst

17. We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine.

- Mark Nepo

19. That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

20. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.

- Louisa May Alcott

21. Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.

- Susan Gale

22. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

23. You have to be strong and calm to overcome difficult moments.

- Dani Alves

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

- Ovid

25. It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

- Dalai Lama

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

- Isabel Allende

27. Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

- Karina Kapoor Khan

28. 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

29. Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

- St. Francis de Sales

30. Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

- Baruch Spinoza

31. 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

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

- Christopher Reeve

33. 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

34. What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.

- Meryl Streep

35. Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

- Mattie Stepanek

36. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

- Joshua 1:9, ESV

37. Strong people are ones who can smile for others’ happiness.

- Veronica Purcell

38. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

- Harriet Tubman

39. The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

40. Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.

- Katherine Dunham

41. Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

42. A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

- Tecumseh

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

- Henry Rollins

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

45. Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- J.K. Rowling

48. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

- Corrie Ten Boom

49. Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

- George Henry Lewes

50. The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.

- Anonymous

51. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

- Charles Lindbergh

52. I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.

- Angie Harmon

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

- Thomas Paine

54. Taking care of yourself makes you stronger for everyone in your life – including you.

- Kelly Rudolph

55. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Louis Pasteur

57. 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.

- Chris Bradford

58. Be very strong… be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

- Alberto Juantorena

59. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

- Niccolò Machiavelli

60. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

- Joe Kennedy

61. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

- William Ellery Channing

62. 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

63. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

64. The spirit of hope, inner strength, enthusiasm, and persistent determination are the pillars for any success.

- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great

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

- Mother Teresa

66. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

- Lao Tzu

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

- Drew Barrymore

68. People do not lack strength, they lack will.

- Victor Hugo

69. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

70. 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

71. Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

- Francis Bacon

72. It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

73. He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

- Ben Jonson

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

- Lao Tzu

75. 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.

- Joel Osteen

76. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

- Samuel Johnson

77. A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence.

- Dalai Lama

78. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

- Thomas Paine

79. Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

80. Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

- Lisa Murkowski

81. Building mental strength is the key to reaching our full potential in life.

- Amy Morin

82. The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

- Psalm 28:7, ESV

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Demi Lovato

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

- Ernest Hemingway

86. The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Bruce Lee

88. Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

- Gregory Peck

89. Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

- Pythagoras

90. Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

91. You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.

- Ken Kesey

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

- Khalil Gibran

93. Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

- Alexis Carrel

94. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

96. Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

- William Gurnall

97. A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

- Vernon Howard

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

- Todd Wheatland

99. Solitude is the strength of being alone. It’s where we become our best company.

- Jay Shetty

100. Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

- Oprah Winfrey

101. Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

- Stephen Covey

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

- Bruce Lee

103. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Hermann Hesse

105. Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

- Billy Graham

106. My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Marcus Aurelius

108. Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes’, we have standards.

- Marilyn Monroe

109. The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

110. 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

111. This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

112. 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

113. Mental strength is something you either have, or you haven’t.

- Katie Taylor

114. The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

- Paul Cezanne

115. Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

- Thomas Carlyle

116. Virtue is inner strength. It expands your nature.

- John Bradshaw

117. Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

- Napoleon Hill

118. Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.

- Michael Jordan

119. Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

- Dwight Eisenhower

120. Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

- Misty Copeland

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

- Albert Schweitzer

122. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.

- Rita Mero

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

- Bob Marley

124. The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

- Leonardo da Vinci

125. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

- Edmund Hillary

126. Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

- Phil Jackson

127. Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.

- Sarah Dessen

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

- Kahlil Gibran

129. There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

- Booker T. Washington

130. The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Peter Marshall

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Dawna Markova

134. The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

135. You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

- Paula Radcliffe

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

- Criss Jami

137. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

- Eleanor Roosevelt