Top 100 Stay Strong Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Persevere and get it done.”

— George Allen

52. “You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

53. “From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, “I survived.””

— Craig Scott

54. “But just because it burns doesn’t mean you’re gonna die. You’ve gotta get up and try, try, try.”

— Pink

55. “Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up!”

— Dave Ramsey

56. “The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.”

— Steve Maraboli

57. “Be strong to be useful.”

— Georges Hebert

58. “Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand- – that and such hope as I bring.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

59. “Even in a bad situation, there’s always a positive side. Even if you can’t see it yet.”

— Susane Colasanti

60. “Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

— William Ernest Henley

61. “I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.”

— Roger Federer

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

— Tecumseh

63. “Let your failures refine you, not define you.”

— Max Lucado

64. “The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”

— Napoleon Hill

65. “As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

66. “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

— William Ellery Channing

67. “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

— Orison Swett Marden

68. “Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.”

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

69. “There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

70. “We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.”

— Lance Armstrong

71. “Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It’s up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”

— Cheryl Strayed

72. “Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.”

— Jesse Jackson

73. “Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

74. “Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.”

— Marcus Aurelius

75. “Hard times always lead to something great.”

— Betsey Johnson

76. “We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.”

— J.K. Rowling

77. “Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.”

— Terry Crews

78. “When the outlook isn’t good, try the uplook – it’s always good!”

— Zig Ziglar

79. “I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

80. “Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”

— Maya Angelou

81. “Your inner strength is invulnerable to fear.”

— Deepak Chopra

82. “As long as there’s life, there’s hope.”

— Tamora Pierce

83. “Don’t try so hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different. Just try hard to be you.”

— Zendaya

84. “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.”

— Audrey Hepburn

85. “Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”

— Dan Millman

86. “The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

87. “The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.”

— C. JoyBell C.

88. “Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it – likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

89. “No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.”

— Drew Pinsky

90. “You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!”

— Aly Raisman

91. “Strong people don’t put others down. They lift them up.”

— Michael Watson

92. “You will go through tough times, it’s about getting through them.”

— David Beckham

93. “Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”

— Louisa May Alcott

94. “It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father’s funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

95. “Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.”

— Seneca the Younger

96. “Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.”

— Richard M. Nixon

97. “Embrace the struggle and let it make you stronger. It won’t last forever.”

— Tony Gaskins

98. “If you have a heartbeat, there’s still time for your dreams.”

— Sean Stephenson

99. “Pain made you strong. Loss made you powerful.”

— Cassandra Clare

100. “Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; ’tis God’s gift.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock