Stay Strong Quotes

Sometimes, we need some words of encouragement to stay strong during tough times. And that’s exactly what I’m sharing today: +200 Stay strong quotes to help you keep going!

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“The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.” – Swami Sivananda
“The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow.” — Robert Tew
“Stay strong. Stay true to yourself and to who you are because there is a 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
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” —Robert H. Schuller
“Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.” – Leah LaBelle
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” ~Thomas Edison
“If someone is strong enough to bring you down, show them you are strong enough to get back up.” – Unknown
“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” — Charles Dickens
“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
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”– Audrey Hepburn
“Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.” – Carlos Barrios
“When I’m competing, I need to be strong.” – Ashley Wagner
“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.” – Timber Hawkeye
“If you want the light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” — Guy Finley
“Even when matches don’t work out the way you planned, you’ve always got to stay strong in defense; it’s a matter of willpower and intelligence.” – Becky Sauerbrunn
“There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.” —Usain Bolt
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” — Bob Goff
“Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. ” — Ernest Hemingway
“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
“The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!” – Anne Frank
“Be strong; things will get better. It might be stormy now, but rain doesn’t last forever.” – Unknown
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi
“Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.” – Rocky Balboa
“A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” — Albert Einstein
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” — L.M. Montgomery
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoléon Bonaparte
“You’ve got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.” – Tilman J. Fertitta
“You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.” – Kody Keplinger
“Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” — Mario Fernandez
“Life is, at times, tough. And all we need to do is to prove that we are tougher than it.” – Sanhita Baruah
“You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.” – Ken Kesey
“Sometimes, you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” – Susan Gale
“There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” — William Frederick Halsey Jr.
“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.” – Unknown
“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” – James A. Froude
“Problems are not stopped signs; they are guidelines.” — Robert Schuller
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – R. G. Ingersoll
“I like criticism. It makes you strong.” – LeBron James
“The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you’ll tolerate.” – Unknown
“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is an opportunity for growth.” — Anonymous
“He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.” – Lao Tzu
“Smiling does not necessarily mean you’re happy. Sometimes it just means you’re strong.” – Nishan Panwar
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” — James Allen
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.” – Kareena Kapoor Khan
“Sometimes it’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathe.” — Yumi Sakugawa
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” – Niccolò Machiavelli
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” – Swami Vivekananda
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” — Robert Frost
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but the character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” —Nelson Mandela.
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.” – Helen Keller
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” — Epictetus
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.” – Knute Rockne
“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
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” —Veronica Roth
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” — Maya Angelou
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” —Khalil Gibran
“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” — Ain Eineziz
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
“We will either find a way, or make one.” —Anibal Barca
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I chose to become.” — Carl Gustav Jung
“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
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Building mental strength is the key to reaching our full potential in life.” – Amy Morin
“Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome. ” — N. R. Walker
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“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
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”– Winston Churchill
“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” — Suzanne Collins
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” – Cayla Mills
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” —Greg Kincaid
“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
“Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.” – James Naismith
“Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. Let this be a sign that you’ve got a big heart and aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength.” — Brigitte Nicole
“Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.” – Joel Osteen
“We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine.” —Mark Nepo
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”—Confucius
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” – Bob Marley
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo — far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” —Jodi Picoult
“Be very strong… be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.” —Alberto Juantorena
“I am strong because I’ve been weak. I am fearless because I’ve been afraid. I am wise because I’ve been foolish.” — Joker
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” – Flavia Weedn
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
“There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger.” – Eric Bates
“Sometimes you face difficulties not because you’re doing something wrong, but because you’re doing something right.” — Joel Osteen
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” —Marie Curie
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark
“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” — Elvis Presley
“When you’re not sure if you’re following the right path, when you’ve been knocked down a few too many times, it’s completely fine to get discouraged, hell even defeated. What’s not okay is to stop.” – Gary John Bishop
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” —Toni Morrison
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”—Christopher Robin to Pooh, A.A. Milne
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass
“Little girls with dreams become women with vision.” — Scarlett Curtis
“At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.” – Christine Mason Miller
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” —Peter Marshall
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Be strong & face the life. Because sometimes Life keeping nothing but only one option. Be strong anyway.” – Bharat Zanvar
“You were never created to live depressed, guilty, condemned, ashamed, or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.” — Joel Osteen
“Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” – Brian Tracy
“Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.” —Demi Lovato
“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”—Alexandre Dumas
“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” —Vernon Howard
“Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.” — George Weinberg
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” —Jane Austen
“We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.”—William J. Brennan, Jr.,
“People with strong willpower will always have the bigger picture in mind. They will be able to forgo small pleasures in order to help attain bigger goals.” – Bryan Adams
“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” —Maya Angelou
“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”—Gail Sheehy, Author
“Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” – Misty Copeland
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank
“Small minds can’t comprehend big spirits. To be great, you have to be willing to be mocked, hated, and misunderstood. Stay strong.” – Unknown
“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“A strong woman is someone who is able to smile this morning like she wasn’t crying last night.” – Harriet Morgan
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” — Robert H. Schuller
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”—Thomas Edison
“Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong.” – Catherine Zeta-Jones
“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
“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
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” —Marcus Aurelius
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”―Haruki Murakami
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” — William Ellery Channing
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” – James A. Froude
“We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.” —Isabel Allende
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”—Maya Angelou
“My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down.”~Bob Moore
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. — Desmond Tutu
“Being strong doesn’t mean that you can handle every difficult situation on your own, it means that you have the sense to ask God and others for help.” – Nishan Panwar
“Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.” —Lao Tzu
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” —Randy Pausch
“Never believe for a second that your weak, within all of us we have a reserve of inner hidden strength.” – Victoria Addino
“We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.” — Ivan Illich
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” —Edmund Hillary
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”―H.G. Wells
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”– Ernest Hemingway
“Your strength doesn’t come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardships. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.” ― Germany Kent
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” —Christopher Reeve
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”—Les Brown
“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
“Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”—Unknown
“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
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
“You, my dear, have gone through things no one has a clue about and you survived. Even though you don’t talk about it anymore, Be proud of yourself for not giving up. Be Proud!” ― Mridula Singh
“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
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”—Joshua J. Marine
“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” – Louisa May Alcott
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
“It’s impossible for a mind born of biology to stay strong always. You’d have to be a machine to not feel bad or sad or even devastated when people are rude to you or criticize you. It’s okay to feel bad or sad, but as long as we are moving forward, for every ten criticisms, you’ll receive at least one world of appreciation or thanks.” ― Abhijit Naskar
“Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” —Drew Barrymore
“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth.”—Unknown
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
“We do not have to remain stuck in our trials! We go through them and as daughters of the King, we can rise in the midst of a dark, shaking moment.” – Holly Wagner
“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” —Audrey Hepburn
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”—Carl Bard
“I’m a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.” – Dusty Baker
“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry James
“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
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” —Oprah Winfrey
“No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself.”—Unknown
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn so that we see ourselves as we really are.” – Arthur Golden
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee
“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.” —Hellen Keller
“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path, and you will find you have crossed the mountain.”—Author Unknown
“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”~ Orison Swett Marden
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
“I’m stronger because of the hard times, wiser because of my mistakes, and happier because I have known sadness.” – Allison Vogel
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” —Ernest Hemingway
“Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines.”—Robert Schuller
“Anyone can give up; it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, that’s true strength.~Chris Bradford
“I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”—Earl Nightingale
“Be strong because things will get better. It may be stormy now but it never rains forever.” – Evan Carmichael
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
“One small crack does not mean you are broken. It means you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter
“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
“Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.”—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – Arvind Jain
“Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.” – Vivian Komori
“Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.” —Joel Osteen
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur

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