150 Stay Strong Quotes about Staying Strong Through Hard Times
Quotes about Staying Strong
“Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.” —Napoleon Hill
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” —J.K. Rowling
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” —John Wooden
“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” —Louisa May Alcott
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” —R. G. Ingersoll
“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” —Drew Barrymore
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” —Louisa May Alcott
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” —Lou Holtz
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” —Christopher Reeve
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” —Albert Schweitzer
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.” —George Bernard Shaw
“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” —John F. Kennedy
“Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of those pieces.” —Judith Viorst
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” —Dale Carnegie
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” —Dale Carnegie
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” —Unknown
“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.” —Alex Karras
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” —John Newton
Quotes About Going Through Hard Times And Staying Strong
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggl “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” —Joseph Kennedy
“You’ve got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.”
“Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.” —Swami Vivekananda
“Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go.” —Daniel Stern
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” —Hermann Hesse
es develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Inside of a ring or out, isn’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” —Muhammad Ali
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” —Napoléon Bonaparte
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford
“At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.” —Christine Mason Miller
“You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.” —Kody Keplinger
“There’s so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we’re going to get through it. Just be strong.” —Mary J. Blige
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” —Ann Landers
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” —Bruce Lee
“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
Famous Quotes about Staying Strong
“Build upon strengths, and weaknesses will gradually take care of themselves.” —Joyce C. Lock
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” —John F Kennedy
“He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.” —Lao Tzu
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” —Kenji Miyazawa
“When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” —Unknown
“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.” —Joseph Conrad
“Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.” —Melissa Etheridge
“Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.” —Carlos Barrios
“For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” —Confucius
“Stay strong, be brave, love hard and true, and you will have nothing to lose.” —Demi Lovato
“Pain is temporary- The pain you feel today is only to get strength to face tomorrow.” —Sivaprakash Sidhu
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” —Bernice Johnson Reagon
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” —Buddha
It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Life is, at times, tough. And all we need to do is to prove that we are tougher than it.” —Sanhita Baruah
“Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.” —Dr. Robert Anthony
“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
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” —Helen Keller
“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Being strong doesn’t mean that you can handle every difficult situation on your own, it means that you have the sense to ask God and others for help.” —Nishan Panwar
“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”
“Never give in… never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force.. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” —Winston Churchill
Quotes About Staying Strong Through Hard Times
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” —Soren Kierkegaard
“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.” —Wayne Dyer
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” —Marcus Aurelius
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” —William Ellery Channing
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.” —Napoleon Hill
“A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” —John Burroughs
”Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” —Brian Tracy
“When I hear somebody say ‘Life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask ‘Compared to what?’”– Sydney J. Harris
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” —Maya Angelou
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” —Mary Engelbreit
“So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” —Vernon Howard
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” —Helen Keller
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” —Maya Angelou
“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” —Lee Iacocca
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” —Flavia Weedn
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.” —Hal Lindsey
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” —John Steinbeck
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway? You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.”
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.” —Arthur Golden
“Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.” —Jerome Fleishman
“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.” —Barbara Bloom
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” —J.K. Rowling
“Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.” —Joel Osteen
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” —Catherine Ponder
“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
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” —Marie Curie
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”– Eleanor Roosevelt
“I don’t really want to become normal, average, and standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.” —Anaïs Nin
“I love the man that can smile in trouble that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” —Thomas Paine
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.”
Inspirational Quotes About Staying Strong Through Hard Times
“The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you’ll tolerate.” —Unknown
“Remember: every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.” —Rocky Balboa
“The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.” —Swami Sivananda
“The pain you’ve been feeling can’t compare to the joy that is coming.” —Romans 8:18, The Bible
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” —Sarah Dessen
“Be strong; things will get better. It might be stormy now, but rain doesn’t last forever.” —Unknown
“Sometimes, you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” —Susan Gale
“If someone is strong enough to bring you down, show them you are strong enough to get back up.” —Unknown
“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.” —Timber Hawkeye
“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
“You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.” —Kody Keplinger
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.” —Chris Bradford
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” —George Bernard Shaw
“Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.” —Leah Labelle
Quotes About Being Sick And Staying Strong
“Your illness doens’t define you. Your strength and courage does.”
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” —Cayla Mills
“Be strong because things will get better. It may be stormy now but it never rains forever.” —Evan Carmichael
“Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems. Look for someone who won’t let you face them alone.”
“On particularly rough days, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100%, and that’s pretty good.”
“Some people think that to be strong is to never feel pain. In reality, the strongest people are the ones who feel it, understand it, and accept it.”
“You cannot feel sick and attract health. You cannot feel poor and attract wealth. You have to find ways of improving the way you feel right where you stand, before things can begin to change.”
“Sickness sucks. But through it, we share the tears of sorrows, we experience the love through our family. It deepens our bonds. Makes us cherish, what we previously took for granted – All that matters in life; Life, Family and Health.”
Short Quotes About Staying Strong
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” —Chinese Proverb
“I like criticism. It makes you strong.” —LeBron James
“Concentration is the secret of strength.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” —Oprah
“Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” —Anais Nin
“Always be courageous and strong, and don’t fear.” —Gabby Douglas
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” —H.G. Wells
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines.” —Robert Schuller
“The more one judges, the less one loves.” —Honore de Balzac
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” —Robert H Schuller
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” —Thomas Edison
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.” —Knute Rockne
“Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’– Eckhart Tolle
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” —Duke Ellington
“The first step is you have to say that you can.” —Will Smith
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” —Henry Ford
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” —Leo Buscaglia
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” —Chinese Proverb
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” —Michael Jordan