156 Inner Strength Quotes for Personal Growth
Life has a way of testing our limits, but true strength comes from within.
That’s why we’ve gathered all the best inner strength quotes for your next post.
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“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.”– Katherine Dunham
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”– Maya Angelou
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”– Mark Twain
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”– J.K. Rowling
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”– A. A. Milne
“We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine.”– Mark Nepo
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”– Jean de la Bruyere
“The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”– Khalil Gibran
“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
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”– Ralph Ellison
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”– Francis de Sales
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”– Lao Tzu
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.”– Greg Kincaid
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.”– Jodi Picoult
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.”– J.K. Rowling
“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it’s right.”– Rosa Parks
“Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations.”– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”– John Quincy Adams
“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
“Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.”– Robert F. Kennedy
“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.”– Walt Disney
“O! it is excellent / To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant.”– William Shakespeare
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”– Christopher Reeve
“It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.”– Winston Churchill
“Conquering others is power; conquering oneself is strength.”– Lao Tzu
“If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.”– John F. Kennedy
“We will either find a way, or make one.”– Anibal Barca
“Don’t mistake politeness for lack of strength.”– Sonia Sotomayor
“O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!”– Phillips Brooks
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”– Nelson Mandela
“I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”– George Eliot
“Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.”– Mary Oliver
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”– Oprah Winfrey
“Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.”– Demi Lovato
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”– Edmund Hillary
“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.”– Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.”– Gever Tulley
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”– Toni Morrison
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”– Og Mandino
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”– Sarah Dessen
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”– Louis Pasteur
“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.”– Maya Angelou
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”– Peter Marshall
“I’ve learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me — the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived.”– Oprah Winfrey
“When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.”– Winston Churchill
“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”– Kavita Ramdas
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”– Mahatma Gandhi
“Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.”– Lao Tzu
“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.”– Muhammad Ali
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”– Helen Keller
“If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.”– Michael Jordan
“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it.”– Epictetus
“We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.”– Isabel Allende
“Grief and resilience live together.”– Michelle Obama
“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.
“As for courage and will — we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.”– Andre Norton
“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
“Everything nourishes what is strong already.”– Jane Austen
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”– Winston Churchill
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”– Steve Maraboli
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”– Nelson Mandela
“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”– Samuel Johnson
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”– Maya Angelou
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”– Margaret Thatcher
“It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.”– Hippocrates
“To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.”– Teresa of Ávila
“That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.”– Kahlil Gibran
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”– Abraham Lincoln
“Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Focus on your character, not your reputation. Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.”– Roy T. Bennett
“Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.”– Gillian Anderson
“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”– Nelson Mandela
“Valor is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul.”– Michel de Montaigne
“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.”– George Whitefield
“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
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”– J.R.R. Tolkien
“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”– John H. Zenger
“Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”– Misty Copeland
“Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”– Drew Barrymore
“Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.”– Rocky Balboa
“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 that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”– Marie Curie
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
“If they hadn’t told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.”– Gabourey Sidibe
“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”– Paulo Coelho
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”– Ernest Hemingway
“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”– Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”– Norman Vincent Peale
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”– Ambrose Redmoon
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”– Seneca
“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”– David Viscott
“You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love—who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dream.”– Oprah Winfrey
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”– Theodore Roosevelt
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”– T. S. Eliot
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“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
“Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.”– Hasidic Saying
“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”– Ben Jonson
“Live in terms of your strong points. Magnify them. Let your weaknesses shrivel up and die from lack of nourishment.”– William Young Elliott
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”– Vivian Greene
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”– Anna Freud
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”– Helen Keller
“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”– Marcus Aurelius
“Physical strength is measured by what we carry. Inner strength is measured by what we can bear.”– Unknown
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”– Harriet Tubman
“Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle.”– Mark Twain
“In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”– Laurence Sterne
“At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”– Og Mandino
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”– Napoleon Bonaparte
“He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.”– Lao Tzu
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”– Albert Camus
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”– August Wilson
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on—it is going on when you don’t have strength.”– Napoleon
“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
“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.”– Brian Tracy
“Today is a new beginning, a chance to turn your failures into achievements & your sorrows into so goods. No room for excuses.”– Joel Brown
“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”– Ralph W. Sockman
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”– Mark Twain
“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
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard.”– Harold Klemp
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”– Plutarch
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”– Milton Berle
“A woman is like a tea bag—you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”– Mahatma Gandhi
“And with that inner strength that comes to a free people conscious of their duty, conscious of the righteousness of what they do, they will—with divine help and guidance—stand their ground against this latest assault upon their democracy, their sovereignty, and their freedom.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The life of a nation is the fullness and the measure of its will to win.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.”– Arab Saying
“The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. Teach men the strength that is already within them…Never say ‘No.’ Never say ‘I cannot,’ for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature.”– Vivekananda
“There is no such force as a force of a man determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently changed.”– W.E.B. Du Bois
“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.”– John Henry Newman Beeecher
“Those who overcome others are powerful; those who overcome themselves are strong.”– Laozi
“Look well into yourself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if you will always look there.”– Marcus Aurelius
“At times to think of one’s outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one’s inner strength is infinitely better.”– Sri Chinmoy
“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you survives all hurt.”– Max Lerner
“Are your beliefs anchored in a faith that can withstand emotionalism, the drug culture, social and peer pressure, and material temptations? The world is seething with demonic energy. Only supreme inner strength can resist its ceaseless hassling.”– Billy Graham
“The task ahead is never greater than the strength within you.”– Summersdale Publishers
“I come from a real rabbinical dynasty, and it couldn’t help but have fashioned my life. It’s given me so much inner peace and inner strength.”– Gwyneth Paltrow
“You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of who I am and what I am, and I’m just going to be myself.'”– Mariah Carey
“You can’t give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride.”– Lee Edson
“It is within the will of a man to transform his inner mist into sun.”– Kahlil Gibran
“It is the love she has for herself that gives her the strength to combat all her fights. She is a lover of life but also a sensitive soul with great insights.”– Althea Legister
“It is those who never stoop to retaliation, never demand an eye for an eye, who are truly strong. They have the toughness to be tender, even sweet, while resisting violence with all their heart.”– Eknath Easwaran
“If you want to be unshakeable, you have to train your mind in patience and endurance, the most grueling training that life offers. Life shows no mercy to those who lack this inner strength.”– Eknath Easwaran
“One possible reason for the underdevelopment of inner strength is that many people live superficially and do not stop long enough to genuinely understand themselves and anchor their values.”– John Cong Nguyen
“Inner strength is limited, and there are some people who are not talented, intelligent, or creative, but their inner strengths help propel them to realize their achievements.”– John Cong Nguyen
“People who are fortunate to find their inner strength find that it gives them direction, a purpose, and fulfillment in living.”– John Cong Nguyen
“I have assumed that everyone has a reserve of inner strength and that it is just there, waiting to be used.”– Sandy McGregor
“It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.”– Dalai Lama
“Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.”– Richard E. Byrd
“The tests we face in life’s journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face.”– Kemi Sogunle
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”– Bob Marley
