Have you ever felt discouraged when situations arise? It is a normal feeling which comes, but you don’t have to let it weigh you down. That is why we have put together these quotes about courage and strength to uplift your mood when those situations come at you. Read on to get inspired!
Strength Quotes
1. “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”~ William Ellery Channing
2. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”~ J.K. Rowling
3. “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.” ~ Dalai Lama
4. “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
5. “We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.” ~ Isabel Allende
6. “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” ~ John Quincy Adams
Strength and Self Confidence
7. “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
8. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”~ Winston Churchill
9. “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
10. “The past has no power over the present moment.” -Eckhart Tolle
11. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” ~ Otto Rank
12. “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
13. “Have the courage to act instead of react.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
14. “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
15. “A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility.” – Dalai Lama
16. 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
17. “People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” ~ Hermann Hesse
18. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~ E.E. Cummings
19. “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
20. “We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.” – Joel Osteen
21. “You have power over your mind―not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
Motivational Quotes
22. “We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.” – Swami Vivekananda
23. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anais Nin
24. “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 Raycourage Quotes
25. “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
26. “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” ~ Paulo Coelho
27. “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” ~ Anna Freud
28. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” ~ Muhammad Ali
29. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” ~ Earl Nightingale
30. Silence is a source of great strength. ~ Lao Tzu
31. “Strength is a matter of a made up mind.” ~ John Beecher
32. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~ Mother Teresa
33. “Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” ~ Katherine Dunham
Encouragement Quotes
34. Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain – Vivian Greene
35. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
36. “Inner strength is measured by what we can bear and how long” ~ Invajy
37. “It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” -Dieter F. Uchtdorf
38. One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart. – Linda Poindexter
39. When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes. – Joseph Campbell
40. “Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.” – Amit Ray
41. “Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.”~ Demi Lovato
42. “Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” ~ Lana Del Rey
43. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale
44. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown
45. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” ~ Peter Marshall
Stay Strong Quotes
46. “The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost
47. “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
48. “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard
49. “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” ~ Franklin P. Jones
50. “Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.” ~ Ruth Gordon
51. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” ~ Edmund Hillary
52. “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.” ~ Emma Donoghue
53. Self-love and believing in yourself gives you the power and courage to change your life.” ~ Amanda Ray
54. “Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore
55. “You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.” – Lisa Kleypas
56. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. – Mother Teresa
57. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” ~ Bruce Lee
58. “If you can change your mind, you can change your life.” – William James
Inspiring Quotes
59. “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle
60. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
61. “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
62. “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
63. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ William Faulkner
64. “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
65. “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
66. “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Unknown
67. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway
68. “It requires more courage to suffer than to die.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Inner Strength Quotes
69. “Physical strength is measured by what we carry. Inner strength is measured by what we can bear” – Anonymous
70. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” ~ Steve Jobs
71. “The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides
72. “Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” ~ Katherine Dunham
73. “Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.” – Liberace
74. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” ~ Buddha
75. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
76. “It takes courage to walk away from disagreements.” ~ Amanda RayInner Strength Quotes
77. We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. – Cesar Chavez
78. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl
79. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”– Mark Twain
80. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” ~ Napoleon Hill
81. “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
82. “A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for.” ~ Albert Einstein
83. “They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.” ~ Curtis Joseph
Quotes about Courage
84. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
85. “Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.” ~ John Bradshaw
86. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus
87. “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
88. “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
89. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face … You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
90. “He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”~ Louisa May Alcott
91. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon
Quotes about Standing Strong
92. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” ~ Seneca
93. “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” – Robert H Schuller
94. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”~ Khalil Gibran
95. 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
96. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche
97. If they hadn’t told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable. – Gabourey Sidibe
98. “There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” ~ Seneca
99. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”~ Hermann Hesse
100. “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” ~ Billy Graham
101. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Seneca
102. “Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.” -Maya Watson
103. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
Strength Within Quotes and Sayings
104. “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
105. “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” ~ Vivian Green
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107. “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
108. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” ~ Mark Twain
109. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
110. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” ~ Maya Angelou
111. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.”~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Courageous Quotes
112. “You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.” – Amit Ray
113. “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
114. 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
115. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”~ Maya Angelou
116. “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
117. “Look well into thyself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.” – Marcus Aurelius
118. “Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.” ~ Lao Tzu
119. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi
120. With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. – Dr. Wayne W Dyer
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