Strength Quotes

"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces."

Judith Viorst

"Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it."

Charles R. Swindoll

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

Molière

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

Robert H. Schuller

"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."

Francis Bacon

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

Walter Elliot

"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."

"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."

William Barclay

"Real strength has to do with helping others."

Fred Rogers

"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

"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses."

"There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

"A man of courage is also full of faith."

Cicero

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

Oprah Winfrey

"Courage, dear heart."

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

"No mud, no lotus."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun."

"Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident."

"One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives."

Subhas Chandra Bose

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea."

"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."