Strength & Resilience

Category Strength

Here are some quotes related to strength along with the authors’ names:

“Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” – Niccolò Machiavelli

“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Strength is a matter of a made up mind.” – John Beecher

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” – J.K. Rowling

“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you have no struggles, you’ll have no strength.” – Tim Fargo

“People do not lack strength, they lack will.” – Victor Hugo

“Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.” – Alexander Pope

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” – Booker T. Washington

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” – Thomas Paine

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert Schuller

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.” – T.S. Eliot

“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” – Susan Gale

“Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.” – Lisa Murkowski

“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” – Veronica Roth

“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” – Kavita Ramdas

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

“We will either find a way, or make one.” – Anibal Barca

“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.” – Paulo Coelho

“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” – Greg Kincaid

“We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine.” – Mark Nepo

Category Resilience

Here are some quotes related to resilience along with the authors’ names:

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli

“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” – Angela Duckworth

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.” – Elizabeth Edwards

“‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” – Jodi Picoult

“If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.” – Shane Koyczan

“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” – Greg Kincaid

“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.” – Bram Stoker

“My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.” – Mizuta Masahide

“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” – Gever Tulley

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” – C.C. Scott

“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mary Holloway

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb