Quotes on Being Strong

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?