Top 200 Being Strong Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

2. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

3. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Life Quotes, Failure Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

4. “It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Challenges Quotes

5. “I am willing.” “I am wired to win.” “I got this.” “I embrace the uncertainty.” “I am not my thoughts; I am what I do.” “I am relentless.” “I expect nothing and accept everything.”

— Gary John Bishop

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Personality Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Boldness Quotes

6. “The Kettlebell is an Ancient Russian Weapon Against Weakness.”

— Pavel Tsatsouline

Also featured in: Motivational Workout Quotes

7. “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Famous Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

8. “Anything that makes you weak – physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject it as poison.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Spiritual Growth Quotes, Stay Strong Quotes, Wise Quotes

9. “The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.”

— Nelson Mandela

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10. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Moving On Quotes

11. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

12. “Courage, dear heart.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes

13. “In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.”

— Abdul Kalam

14. “United we stand, divided we fall.”

— Aesop

Also featured in: Quotes About People, Family Quotes, Patriotic Quotes

15. “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

— Anne Frank

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Quotes About Hope

16. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Friday Quotes for Work

17. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

— Frida Kahlo

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Survival Quotes, Adversity Quotes

18. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

— Sigmund Freud

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Personality Quotes, Growth Quotes

19. “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Short Inspirational Quotes, Witty Quotes

20. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Motivational Quotes About Life, Not Giving Up Quotes

21. “Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Victory Quotes

22. “If God is for us, who can be against us?”

— Paul the Apostle

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Scripture Quotes, Blessing Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

23. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

— John Wayne

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Values Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Challenges Quotes

24. “Train hard, fight easy.”

— Alexander Suvorov

Also featured in: Preparation Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Victory Quotes

25. “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

— Alexander the Great

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Epic Quotes

26. “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Military Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Past Quotes

27. “To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

28. “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!”

— Rudyard Kipling

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Doubt Quotes

29. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

— Charlotte Brontë

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Choices Quotes

30. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Hard Work Quotes, Willpower Quotes

31. “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”

— George Washington

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32. “Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

— Alfred Tennyson

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Determination Quotes, Hero Quotes

33. “Just because you feel fear doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Do it afraid.”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Resilience Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

34. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

— Nora Ephron

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Personality Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women

35. “Life is not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the trap of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not.”

— Matthew McConaughey

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Quotes About Reality

36. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Optimism Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Challenges Quotes

37. “The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes, Victory Quotes

38. “True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.”

— John Wayne

Also featured in: Commitment Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Duty Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

39. “If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Fighting Quotes

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Short Motivational Quotes, Empowering Quotes

41. “When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.”

— Sylvester Stallone

Also featured in: Overcoming Fear Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Character Quotes

42. “When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Motivational Bodybuilding Quotes

43. “Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone.”

— Sophie Scholl

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Values Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Quotes About Believing

44. “Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.”

— Suzy Kassem

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45. “Be a victor, not a victim.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Optimism Quotes, Victory Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

46. “Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

— Lou Holtz

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Positive Short Quotes

47. “There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Impact Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

48. “It is far better to live like a lion for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.”

— Tipu Sultan

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Hero Quotes

49. “If you don’t like something, don’t do it. But don’t forget this: NO PAIN, NO GAIN.”

— Serge Nubret

Also featured in: Fitness Quotes, Work Hard Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Men, Pain Quotes

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

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Deep Quotes About Life, Life Lessons Quotes, Obstacles Quotes