Strength Quotes

I'd discovered that the sun equated happiness. Its bright and lovely existence was hope incarnate. It exposed the dark, brought forth the light and showed you that no matter how strong or oppressive the night was, that it was infinitely stronger, exponentially more substantial and just because you couldn't see it with your eyes, didn't mean it wasn't still with you. it was stalwart and constant. It was infinite.

~ Fisher Amelie

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

~ Anna Gavalda

It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. Like what? I asked. My mouth was dry. I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want.

~ Stephen Chbosky

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

There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.

~ Colleen Hoover

There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.

~ Jane Lindskold

It’s very difficult to follow our dreams, but it’s even more difficult to forget them.

~ Rahul Rampal

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Ask us for any help you need...Let us be strong for you.

~ Juliet Marillier

Today you had a very important lesson on taking punches. A lot of people will tell you that the first thing you have to learn is how to take a punch. But I believe the first thing you should know is that you can take one and survive. A punch won't kill you. Conquering your fear is the first step to becoming a powerful fighter.

~ Robert Sharenow

When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.

~ Hayley Dimarco

No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face; each of us has gifts within us. Strength, beauty, courage, compassion, hope, joy, talent, imagination, reverence, wisdom, love and faith are among them. They are not like material presents we unwrap and hold in our hands. We can’t see these gifts with our eyes. But they are real and powerful. When we open ourselves to them, they can enrich every aspect of our lives. They can help us transform challenges into opportunities and tragedies into triumphs. They can help us make a difference in the world.

~ Charlene Costanzo

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

~ Ray Dalio

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

sometimes the only thing wrong with you is thinking something's wrong with you.

~ Brenda Mazzarella

But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

~ Charlene Costanzo

The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).

~ Ray Dalio

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

~ Amy Neftzger

Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. “I need to make my bones.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

You’ll do fine if you have any strength at all, but listen to your Green angel and give yourself more exit points. You’re in for some rude awakenings in battle, and young souls often retreat under fire. You’ll end up trying to find a shortcut back home and that always makes a big mess.

~ Dawn Jayne

People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite. EPO granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder than you'd ever imagined, in both training and racing.

~ Daniel Coyle

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

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.

~ Margaret Way

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 Dimarco

Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible.

~ Carter Dickson

We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.

~ Tommy Tran

One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!

~ Shannon L. Alder

It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That's growth!

~ Yvonne Pierre

In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.

~ Andrea Dworkin

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

When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest.

~ Yvonne Pierre

A partner to share the ups and downs with. Honor and strength, and knowing you're stronger together than apart

~ Donna Alward

God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror!

~ Yvonne Pierre

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.

~ Guillaume Musso

If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.

~ Savitri Devi

Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?

~ Lionel Suggs

The more loving we can be, the more powerful we become.

~ Silvia Hartmann

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

I look around the room at some of the familiar faces and some of those who are still strangers to me. Somewhere deep within, I find the strength. The strength I was born from, that I never knew I possessed. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE

~ Courtney Nuckels

If somebody's getting depressed in life, I would say, Look at me'. I've got here believing in me. Sometimes, things do not go as you expected and you could feel as if you were ruining everything. But Everything can be only the path to get to the success of your dream. You can not fail until you give up. As long as you keep going, you are on the path for your success.

~ Hiroko Sakai