Strength Quotes

"I am not afraid; I was born to do this."

Joan of Arc

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

Nora Ephron

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

Marianne Williamson

"There is no education like adversity."

Benjamin Disraeli

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."

Felicia Hemans

"Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."

Comte de Buffon

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

Benjamin Spock

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

Georgia O'Keeffe

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

John A. Shedd

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

Sam Levenson

"Hope is the thing with feathers – that perches in the soul – and sings the tune without the words – and never stops – at all."

Emily Dickinson

"Though much is taken, much abides... To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

Rudyard Kipling

"Say not the struggle nought availeth."

Arthur Hugh Clough

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

John Milton

"Confidence and hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure."

"Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.'"

"Life is lived on one's own strength; others' shoulders are used only to carry the dead."

Bhagat Singh

"When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today."

Sarojini Naidu

"Slowly, slowly, O mind, everything happens at its own pace; the gardener may pour a hundred pots of water, but fruit comes only in its season."

Kabir

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."