150 Strength Quotes to Inspire Your Inner Strength & Courage

Strength Quotes to Inspire Your Inner Strength

• “I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” —Woody Allen
• “Death never takes a wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go.” —Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695)
• “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” —Marcus Aurelius
• “Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.” —Martin Luther
• “I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.” —Jean Giraudoux
• “Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.” —Langston Hughes
• “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” —Mahatma Gandhi
• “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.” —Albert Einstein
• “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” —Mark Twain
• “A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.” —Percival Arland Ussher
• “Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”
• “To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.” —Samuel Butler
• “Thank Heaven! The crisis –The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last –, and the fever called ”Living” is conquered at last.” —Edgar Allan Poe
• “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” —Steve Jobs
• “To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?” —Socrates

Quotes about Inner Strength

• “The best way out is always through.” —Robert Frost
• “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” —Paulo Coelho
• “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” —Maya Angelou
• “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” —Franklin P. Jones
• “Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” —Lana Del Rey
• “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” —Hermann Hesse
• “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” —Vivian Greene
• “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” —Anna Freud
• “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

Powerful and Inspirational Quotes about Inner Strength

• “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” ―Maya Angelou
• “Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.” ―Henry Rollins
• “You have power over your mind―not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ―Marcus Aurelius
• “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” ―Bob Marley
• “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” ―Vivian Greene
• “Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” ―Katherine Dunham
• “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” ―Anna Freud
• “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” ―Vernon Howard
• “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
• “Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.” ―Richard E. Byrd
• “As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.” ―Vincent van Gogh
• “You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am.’“ ―Mariah Carey
• “No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.” ―Alana Stewart

Finding Inner Strength Quotes

• “You have power over your mind―not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” —Marcus Aurelius
• “Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” —Katherine Dunham
• “Everything you need is within you, the strength, courage and confidence to change your life. You just need to look within yourself and find it.” —Amanda Ray
• “You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself’.” —Mariah Carey
• “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.” —Dalai Lama

Quotes About Inner Strength And Resilience

• “Hope is a waking dream.” —Aristotle
• “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Plutarch
• “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” —Milton Berle
• “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” —Maya Angelou
• “The sun shines not on us but in us.” —John Muir
• “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” —Oprah Winfrey
• “Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.” —Maya Watson
• “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” —Mahatma Gandhi
• “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” —Robert H Schuller
• “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.” Edith Wharton
• “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Quotes About Inner Strength And Courage

• “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” —Anais Nin
• “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain
• “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” —Muhammad Ali
• “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
• Self-love and believing in yourself gives you the power and courage to change your life.” —Amanda Rays
• “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” —John Quincy Adams
• “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”– Mary Tyler Moore
• “There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” —Ronald Reagan
• “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

Inner Strength Sayings And Quotes

• “Silence is a source of great strength.” —Lao Tzu
• “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Otto Rank
• “Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.” —John Bradshaw
• “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” —Napoleon Hill
• “Inner strength is measured by what we can bear and how long.” —Invajy
• “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” —Bruce Lee
• “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” —Mahatma Gandhi
• “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” —Mother Teresa
• “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” —Bob Marley
• “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” —Seneca
• “As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.” —Vincent van Gogh

Quotes about Strength

• “It requires more courage to suffer than to die.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
• “Have the courage to act instead of react.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” —Hermann Hesse
• “The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” —Thucydides
• “Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.” —Ruth Gordon
• “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” —Billy Graham
• “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” —Earl Nightingale
• “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” —Steve Jobs
• “Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.” —James Freeman Clarke

Quotes about Courage

• “Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.” —EM Forster
• “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill
• “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.” —Emma Donoghue
• “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —E.E. Cummings
• “Like a kite courageous person always rises and achieves new highs going against the wind.” —Invajy
• “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” — John A. Shedd
• “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” — William Faulkner
• “Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” — Erica Jong
• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” —Gilbert K Chesterton
• “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” — J.K. Rowling
• “Don’t feel defeated if your dreams didn’t work out. It took courage to try and take the risk. That’s something to be proud of.” —Amanda Ray

Strength and Courage Quotes

• “It takes courage to walk away from disagreements.” —Amanda RayInner Strength Quotes
• “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” —Mahatma Gandhi
• “You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both!” —Brene Brown
• “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” —R. G. Ingersoll
• “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
• “There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” — Seneca
• “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” —Winston Churchill
• “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” —Mary Anne Radmacher
• “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” —Mary Tyler Moore
• “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” —W. Clement Stone

Strength From within Quotes

• “Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.” —Lao Tzu
• “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” —Edmund Hillary
• “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.” —Dalai Lama
• “They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.” —Curtis Joseph
• “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” —Buddha
• “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” —Paulo Coelho
• “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
• “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” —Walt Disney

Quotes About Inner Strength And Confidence

• “Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.” —Demi Lovato
• “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” —J.K. Rowling
• “Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” —Drew Barrymore
• “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” —Khalil Gibran
• “He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” —Louisa May Alcott
• “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” —William Ellery Channing
• “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” —Maya Angelou
• “The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.” —Criss Jami
• “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
• “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” —Vincent Van Gogh

Short Quotes about Inner Strength

• “Death pays all debts.” —William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
• “Death takes no bribes.” —Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
• “Six feet of earth makes us all equal.”
• “Death keeps no calendar.” —English (on death and dying)
• “The first breath is the beginning of death.” —Thomas Fuller
• “Death is a distant rumor to the young.” —Andrew A. Rooney
• “Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.” —Proverb
• “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” —J.K. Rowling
• “Death – the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.” —Walter Scott
• “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” —George Eliot
• “Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
• “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” —Corazon Aquino
• “When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” —Laurie Halse Anderson
• “A person has learned much who has learned how to die.” —German (on death and dying)
• “Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.” —Seneca