Top 100 Stay Strong Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Mind Quotes

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

— Regina Brett

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Positive Short Quotes, Mind Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

3. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Short Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Personality Quotes

4. “By endurance we conquer.”

— Ernest Shackleton

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Never Give Up Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

5. “Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Self-Worth Quotes, Values Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

6. “It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

7. “It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Adversity Quotes

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

9. “The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Not Giving Up Quotes, Struggle Quotes

10. “Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.”

— Mark Rippetoe

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Fitness Quotes, Motivational Bodybuilding Quotes

11. “Life is rough so you gotta be tough.”

— Johnny Cash

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

12. “I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds”

— Henry Rollins

Also featured in: Fitness Quotes

13. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Grit Quotes, Graduation Quotes

14. “The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Never Give Up Quotes, Bullying Quotes

15. “Never surrender; it’s all about the faith that you got.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Keep Your Head Up Quotes

16. “Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Hero Quotes

17. “Keep your head up, keep your heart strong. Keep your mind set, keep your hair long.”

— Ben Howard

Also featured in: Be Yourself Quotes, Keep Your Head Up Quotes

18. “Perseverance is another word for faith!”

— Earl Nightingale

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Dedication Quotes

19. “It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Also featured in: Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Moving Quotes

20. “No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.”

— William Whiting Borden

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Monday Morning Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

21. “Always think and be positive.”

— Dominick Cruz

Also featured in: Monday Morning Quotes, Have a Great Day Quotes, Monday Quotes

22. “Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

— Robert H. Schuller

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Moving Quotes, Past Quotes

23. “It’s a lifestyle – train like there’s no finish line.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Fitness Quotes

24. “Your workouts are important meetings you scheduled with yourself. Bosses don’t cancel.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

25. “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.”

— Christine Caine

Also featured in: Positive Quotes for Women, Resilience Quotes, Darkness Quotes, Tuesday Morning Quotes

26. “Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”

— Pope John Paul II

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Salvation Quotes, Easter Quotes

27. “Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Faith Quotes

28. “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Impact Quotes, Cheer Quotes

29. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. It does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. It is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.”

— Corrie ten Boom

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Peace of Mind Quotes

30. “The giant in front of you is never bigger than the God who lives in you.”

— Christine Caine

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Blessed Quotes, Sunday Quotes

31. “You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Preparation Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Competition Quotes

32. “Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality.”

— Jared Leto

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, You Are Amazing Quotes

33. “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Mental Strength Quotes

34. “You can’t always control the circumstances – only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.”

— Jennie Finch

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Willpower Quotes, Resilience Quotes, You Got This Quotes

35. “The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Motivational Workout Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Gym Motivation Quotes

36. “Never compromise your values.”

— Steve Maraboli

Also featured in: Be Yourself Quotes, Conscience Quotes

37. “It’s cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I’ve been going through in one way or another.”

— Chester Bennington

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Addiction Quotes

38. “There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.”

— John Cena

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes

39. “You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

40. “Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

41. “Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.”

— Erin Brockovich

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Be Yourself Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

42. “Life will get in the way. Count on it. Be prepared for it. Maintain focus and press on towards your goal.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

43. “When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Positive Quotes for Women, Happy Sunday Quotes, Faith Quotes

44. “We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, but frankly we won’t if we’re too afraid to try.”

— Beth Moore

Also featured in: Scripture Quotes, Quotes About Trying

45. “If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Quotes About Hope

46. “Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made.”

— Gabby Douglas

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Grit Quotes, Strong Women Quotes, Workout Quotes

47. “Never doubt God’s desire or ability to help you.”

— T. B. Joshua

Also featured in: Sunday Quotes, Happy Sunday Quotes, Miracle Quotes, Positive Good Morning Quotes

48. “We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.”

— Ronald Reagan

Also featured in: Military Quotes

49. “Without victory there is no survival!”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Military Quotes, Victory Quotes

50. “A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”

— William Arthur Ward

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Friendship Quotes, You Got This Quotes, You Are Amazing Quotes