Strength Quotes

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement."

"You are the sky. Everything else – it's just the weather."

Pema Chödrön

"By endurance we conquer."

Ernest Shackleton

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose."

Mary Shelley

"Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything."

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

Corrie ten Boom

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Be water, my friend."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Harper Lee

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."

"Today is victory over yourself of yesterday."

Miyamoto Musashi

"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."

Anne Frank

"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

Elie Wiesel

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Jane Goodall

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

James Baldwin

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Ella Fitzgerald

"I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely."

Ludwig van Beethoven

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

Vincent van Gogh

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you."

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

Thomas Edison

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."

Publilius Syrus

"Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached."