Top 40 Being Strong Quotes (2023 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, Giving Up Quotes

2. “Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

— Dolly Parton

Also featured in: Depression Quotes

3. “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”

— John F. Kennedy

4. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Positive Quotes

5. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

— Marie Curie

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

6. “Perhaps I am stronger than I think.”

— Thomas Merton

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes

7. “You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.”

— Paula Radcliffe

8. “God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.”

— Edward Bouverie Pusey

9. “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Mistake Quotes

10. “Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.”

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

11. “Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.”

— John F. Kennedy

12. “If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.”

— Corrie ten Boom

13. “I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”

— John Steinbeck

14. “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

15. “Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

— Erica Jong

16. “Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Also featured in: Ambition Quotes

17. “When I’ve heard all I need to make a decision, I don’t take a vote. I make a decision.”

— Ronald Reagan

18. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes

19. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. ”

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Also featured in: Beautiful Quotes

20. “You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

21. “A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.”

— Tecumseh

22. “The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.”

— Aristotle

23. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

— Ernest Hemingway

24. “A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”

— Thomas Carlyle

25. “Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.”

— Les Brown

26. “He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”

— Louisa May Alcott

27. “Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.”

— Elbert Hubbard

28. “Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

29. “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Courage Quotes

30. “When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”

— Joseph Campbell

Also featured in: Strong Quotes

31. “A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.”

— Louisa May Alcott

32. “Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.”

— Tom Chappell

33. “The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.”

— Khalil Gibran

34. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

35. “From caring comes courage.”

— Laozi

36. “Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Also featured in: Loneliness Quotes

37. “Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”

— Sigmund Freud

38. “It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”

— Elbert Hubbard

39. “He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Strong Quotes

40. “A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another’s emotional support.”

— Mary Watkins