Quotes about Strength

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Confucius

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's good for a child to lose as well as win. They must learn in life they are going to be up today and maybe down tomorrow. - Ruby Middleton Forsythe

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. - Martha Grimes

A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits. - Napoleon Hill

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever. - Hong Kong proverb

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. - Aldous Huxley

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within - Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller

The best advice you can ever give or receive is to be your self. - Tesha Olivas

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing and everything cannot coexist. To believe in one is to deny the other. Fear is really nothing and love is everything. Whenever light enters darkness, the darkness is abolished. - Helen Schucman

Face the thing you fear, and you do away with that fear - Unknown

If it doesn't kill you, it only makes you stronger - Unknown

The best possible person that you can be can only be when you love yourself completely - Unknown

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so - Unknown

It is better to be hated for what you are then to be love for what you are not. - Unknown

What does not kill me makes me stronger - Unknown

I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent. - Unknown

After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, and you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security, and you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child. You learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So, plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure... that you really are strong, and you really do have worth. - Unknown

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. - Unknown