Strength Quotes

These 87 quotes on strength come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. — Kahlil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. — Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. — Mahatma Gandhi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. — Lao Tzu
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. — Thich Nhat Hanh
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
A nation that does not believe in its own strength as a nation cannot stand as an independent nation. — Sukarno
A nation that does not believe in its own strength as a nation cannot stand as an independent nation.
Sukarno
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. — Henrik Ibsen
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart. — Kwame Nkrumah
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
Kwame Nkrumah
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. — Derek Walcott
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
Derek Walcott
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. — Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Silence is a source of great strength. — Lao Tzu
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
Nothing in the world is softer than water, yet nothing is better at overcoming the hard and strong. — Lao Tzu
Nothing in the world is softer than water, yet nothing is better at overcoming the hard and strong.
Lao Tzu
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. — Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability. — Ho Chi Minh
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Ho Chi Minh
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. — A. A. Milne
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. — Swami Vivekananda
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Swami Vivekananda
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. — Blaise Pascal
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. — Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Every body perseveres in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by forces impressed. — Isaac Newton
Every body perseveres in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by forces impressed.
Isaac Newton
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. — Swami Vivekananda
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
Swami Vivekananda
It isn't always easy to apologize for your mistakes but doing so shows a person with a strong sense of self. — Byron Pulsifer
It isn't always easy to apologize for your mistakes but doing so shows a person with a strong sense of self.
Byron Pulsifer
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health. — Dalai Lama
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
Dalai Lama
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. — Seneca
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. — Napoleon Hill
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon Hill
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. — Bruce Lee
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Bruce Lee
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. — Sun Tzu
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu
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