Strength Quotes

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ J.k. Rowling

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

~ Albert Camus

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

~ Veronica Roth

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

~ Corrie Ten Boom

It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

~ Jon Krakauer

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

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

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

~ John Steinbeck

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

~ Ernest Hemingway

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

~ Thomas Hardy

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

~ James Frey

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

~ Cassandra Clare

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.

~ Taylor Swift

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

~ Dan Brown

The weaker you are the louder you bark.-Tenten

~ Masashi Kishimoto

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

~ Betty Smith

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

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

~ Robert Jordan

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.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

~ Sigmund Freud

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

~ Ally Condie

She was stronger alone…

~ Jane Austen

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

~ Max Lucado

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

~ Michael Jordan

one thing I don’t needis any more apologiesi got sorry greetin me at my front dooryou can keep yrsi don’t know what to do wit emthey don’t open doorsor bring the sun backthey don’t make me happyor get a mornin paperdidn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash carscuz a sorry.

~ Ntozake Shange

Take my hands,” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.

~ Cassandra Clare

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

~ Eve Ensler

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

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.

~ Christine De Pizan

There is a certain strength in being alone.

~ Heather Duffy Stone

Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.

~ Zack W. Van

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

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are– bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

~ Charles B. Handy

In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with loveAnd there may be many things we forget in the days to come,But this will not be one of them.

~ Brian Andreas

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

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.

~ Mike Norton