80 Strength Quotes To Remind Us That We Are Indestructible

These strength quotes will help you face your fears, demons, or anything else that comes your way.

What does strength mean to you?

Strength can mean different things depending on who you ask, or the situation at hand.

Some people have astonishing physical strength and rippling muscles.

These people can perform feats of strength that us mere mortals can’t even dream of.

In my house, I have the big powerful man open the pickle jars. 

However, not all strength is physical; sometimes it is a product of being resilient enough to survive traumatic situations.

Then there are those people who possess grace, courage, and the strength to forgive.

These strength quotes will help you figure out the meaning of strength, and give you the strength to face your fears, demons, or anything else that comes your way. 

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Strength quotes that express the importance of mental fortitude

1. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” ― Corrie Ten Boom

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

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3. “It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

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4. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

5. “It’s not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.” ― Jon Krakauer

6. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ― Steve Maraboli

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

8. “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.” ― Judith Viorst

9. “Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can hold on.” ― James Frey

10. “I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” ― Henry David Thoreau

11. “You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.” ― Ken Kesey

12. “Never believe for a second that your weak, within all of us we have a reserve of inner hidden strength,” ― Victoria Addino

13. “Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.” ― Henry David Thoreau

Strength quotes about courage and bravery

14. “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” ― Veronica Roth

15. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

16. “Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.” ― Sabaa Tahir

17. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu

18. “Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.” ― Michel de Montaigne

19. “The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.”― G.K. Chesterton

20. “Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.-Chiron.” ― Rick Riordan

21. “It don’t matter what happens if you’re only strong and have great courage.” ― Lois Lenski

Strength quotes for the moments you need it the most

22. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

23. “There is a saying in Tibetan: Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength. No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

24. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” ― Michael J. Fox

25. “Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.” ― Cassandra Clare

26. “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” ― Ernest Hemingway

27. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” ― J.K. Rowling

28. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” ― Frederick Douglass

29. “In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ― Drew Barrymore

30. “We acquire the strength we have overcome.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

31. “My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.” ― Emery Lord

32. “Strength is not something you have, it’s something you find.” ― Emma Smith

33. “The possibility of the dream gives strength.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

Strength quotes that remind us women are powerful, too

34. “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” ― Jane Austen

35. “Better to be strong than pretty and useless.” ― Lilith Saintcrow

36. “It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but for others, I can kill.” ― Emilie Autumn

37. “A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.” ― Thomas Hardy

38. “Women are never so strong as after their defeat.” ― Alexandre Dumas

39. “I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.” ― Queen Elizabeth I

40. “I am a woman and a warrior. If you think I can’t be both, you’ve been lied to.” ― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

41. “I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.” ― Terry Goodkind
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Strength quotes about forgiveness and understanding

42. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

43. “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” ― Ann Landers

44. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ― Maya Angelou

45. “I used to think you were weak and just didn’t fight back … but now, honestly, I think you’re actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.” ― Richelle Mead

46. “Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.” ― Ralph W. Sockman

47. “Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.” ― Lawrence G. Lovasik

48. “Joy is strength.” ― Mother Teresa

49. “Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.” ― Elizabeth George

50. “I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.” ― Leo Rosten

51. “Strength isn’t about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.” – Jennifer Armintrout

More strength quotes and sayings

52. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.” – Lao Tzu

53. “Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.” – G.K. Chesterton

54. Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.” – Billy Graham

55. 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

56. “Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.” – Emil Dorian

57. “For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.” – Robin Hobb

58. “But there was nothing else she could be right now except strong.” – Morgan Rhodes

59. “A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.” – Barbara Ehrenreich

60. “Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.” – Gregory Peck

Strength quotes on where it actually lies

61. “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.” – Veronica Roth

62. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

63. “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

64. “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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

65. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” – Mahatma Gandhi

66. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran

67. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

68. “Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” – Mattie Stepanek

69. A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” – Christopher Reeve

70. “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

Strength Quotes That Will Make You Harden

71. “In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.” ― Robert E. Lee

72. “Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength.” ― Laozi

73. Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” ― Oprah Winfrey

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

75. “Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.” ― Elbert Hubbard

76.  “If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.” ― T. S. Eliot

77. “Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli

78. “Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.” ― Yo-Yo Ma

79. “I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.” ― Ani DiFranco

80. “A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.” ― Mikhail Bakunin

Which of these strength quotes resonated with you best?

Hopefully you found the strength you were searching for within these quotes.

Each of us is stronger and more capable than we think.

Sometimes, we just have to dig deep and search our souls to discover that strength. 

Whatever challenge you face, or have faced in the past, I’m glad you found the strength to survive.

Persevering through adversity is never easy, but you keep going because you are strong.

Forgiving someone who wronged you can feel impossible and requires unique strength.

Doing things that scare you require an immense amount of bravery.

Brute strength is also nothing to sneeze at.

Where would we be without the people powerful enough to lift heavy things and pry open jars?

Every type of strength is important and you should be proud of yours!

Which of these strength quotes and sayings is your favorite?

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