75 Stay Strong Quotes to Help You Through Dark Times

Are you struggling to stay resilient while dealing with the highs and lows of life?

Our stay strong quotes will show you how to persevere in the face of adversity. 

How have you stayed strong in the past? 

Whether it’s in your career, relationship, or family, sometimes it may feel like you can’t catch a break.

After dealing with challenge after challenge, you may be struggling to pick up the pieces.

All of us have felt the same way that you feel right now.

That’s proven through the quotes listed below.

We have compiled 50 quotes about staying strong from celebrities, writers, and public speakers.

Each person gives insightful advice about how they picked themselves up after struggling and kept moving forward. 

Enjoy our curated list of inspirational quotes below. 

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Inspirational stay strong quotes

1. “If you have a good support system like your family and your friends around you, then you can’t go wrong. So just believe in yourself, do you your thing, and stay strong in what you believe in.” – Roman Reigns

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2. “Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.” – Shawn Johnson

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3. “Stay strong. Stay true to yourself and to who you are because there is community out there. It may not be in your town or perhaps even in your family, but you are wanted and you are loved and there are places in the world where you will be safe and supported.” – Emma Walton Hamilton

4. “The key is to stay level headed. Not get too high with the highs. At the same time, you need to stay strong when things aren’t going your way.” – Joe Gomez

5. “If someone is strong enough to bring you down, show them you are strong enough to get back up.” – A. Josland

Stay Strong quotes about fear and courage

6. “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

7. “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

8. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

9. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

10. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” – Plato

11. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” – George S. Patton

12. “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

13. “Don’t be afraid to see what you see.” – Ronald Reagan

14. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller

15. “There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.” – Michel de Montaigne

16. “Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.” – Samuel Butler

17. “I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.” – Taylor Swift

18. “Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.” – Chuck Palahniuk

19. “Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.” – Christopher Reeve

20. “Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.” – Rollo May

21. “Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.” – David Ben-Gurion

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Stay Strong quotes about strength

22. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

23. “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen

24. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln

25. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

26. “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

27. “He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.” – Lao Tzu

28. “A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.” – Wayne Dyer

29. “It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.” – Elbert Hubbard

30. “Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.” – Leo Buscaglia

31. “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle

32. “Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.” – Ovid

33. “Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.” – Robert Kiyosaki

34. “The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.” – Rudolf Steiner

35. “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.” – Evangeline Love

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Stay Strong quotes about adversity

36. “Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.” – Winston Churchill

37. “The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!” – Joyce Meyer

38. “You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.” – Michelle Obama

39. “There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” – Malcolm X

40. “When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.” – LL Cool J

41. “Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.” – Billy Graham

42. “Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

43. “There is no education like adversity.” – Benjamin Disraeli

44. “Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.” – Og Mandino

45. “Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.” – Tacitus

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Other stay strong quotes and sayings

46. “You can do nothing, or you can take on the challenge of taking on the adversity. You have got to have faith. You have to have faith in whatever you believe in.” – Brian Banks

47. The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.” – Swami Sivananda

48. “Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.” – Thomas Carlyle

49. “Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.” – Anais Nin

50. “Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.” – Horace

51. “Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God’s word, and trust the process.” – Germany Kent

52. “Life is like a war. There will always be people trying to shoot you down. But it’s your choice whether you’re going to surrender, fight back, or dodge the bullet.” – Peyton

53. “Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.” – Roy T. Bennett

54. “No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.” – Lights Poxlietner

55. “Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all. Him whom to love is to obey, and keep his great command!” – John Milton

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Stay Strong Quotes To Help Men and Women Build Resilience in Tough Times

56. “One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in, and where you want to go.” — Sheila Murray Bethel

57. “A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.” — Nancy Rathburn

58. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.” — Maya Angelou

59. “I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected for all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

60. “Don’t let a little stormy weather get you down, there is always sunshine on the other side.” — Heather A. Stillufsen

61. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” — Maya Angelou

62. “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not to do.” — Marge Piercy

63. “And one day, she discovered that she was fierce and strong, and full of fire and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.” — Mark Anthony

64.. “She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared, but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.” — Atticus

65. “Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

Stay Strong Quotes To Encourage Positivity

66. “Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” – Susan Gale

67. “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

68. “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.” — Thomas Paine

69. “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

70. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.” – Frank Herbert

71. “I don’t really want to become normal, average, 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

72. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” – Soren Kierkegaard

73. Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan

74. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington

75. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

What does courage mean to you? 

Being courageous isn’t about the absence of fear.

It is about choosing to make progress even though you are fearful.

That’s where true strength lies, as author Sarah Dessen says, “Anyone can hide.

Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”

Don’t be afraid to reach out to your support system (friends, family, mentors, etc.).

Their unique perspectives may bring you the insight you need to persevere.

Sometimes, all we need is a helping hand to pick us back up. 

Which of these stay strong quotes and sayings is your favorite?

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