Top 200 Quotes About Strength (2025 Update)
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51. “No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.”

— Regina Brett

52. “Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.”

— Swami Vivekananda

53. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”

— Albert Camus

54. “If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.”

— Napoleon Hill

55. “Unless you puke, faint or die, keep going.”

— Jillian Michaels

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

— John F. Kennedy

57. “The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”

— Swami Vivekananda

58. “Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”

— Robertson Davies

59. “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”

— Jewish Proverb

60. “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”

— Steve Jobs

61. “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”

— Maya Angelou

62. “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”

— James Allen

63. “Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

64. “My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.”

— Swami Vivekananda

65. “I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.”

— Maya Angelou

66. “Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”

— Swami Vivekananda

67. “Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it’s what you do at that moment that determines who you are.”

— David Goggins

68. “Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.”

— Regina Brett

69. “The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”

— Swami Vivekananda

70. “Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

— Jacob August Riis

71. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.”

— LeBron James

72. “By endurance we conquer.”

— Ernest Shackleton

73. “Man is not made for defeat.”

— Ernest Hemingway

74. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

— J.K. Rowling

75. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

— Peter Marshall

76. “It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.”

— Marcus Aurelius

77. “Still I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

78. “Don’t cry to quit. Cry to keep going!”

— Eric Thomas

79. “Being weak is a choice, so is being strong.”

— Frank Zane

80. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

81. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

82. “Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.”

— Les Brown

83. “The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph.”

— Nick Vujicic

84. “From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body. I'm a big believer in hard work, grinding it out, and not stopping until it's done, so the challenge appealed to me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

85. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”

— Harriet Tubman

86. “Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it – and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.”

— Wilma Mankiller

87. “That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

88. “Every single day is a battle to stay strong.”

— Demi Lovato

89. “When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.”

— Les Brown

90. “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

— Audre Lorde

91. “Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.”

— Swami Vivekananda

92. “To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

93. “I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me.”

— Eminem

94. “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”

— Oprah Winfrey

95. “There’s a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.”

— Marcus Luttrell

96. “Train insane or remain the same.”

— Jillian Michaels

97. “Mental toughness and resilience fade if they aren’t used consistently. I say it all the time: you are either getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.”

— David Goggins

98. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

99. “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”

— Marcus Aurelius

100. “We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger.”

— Barack Obama