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Strength Quotes

No one is born equal. You have to sweat hard to be Adonis. If you resolve to be strong, then just gymming won’t leave you with impressive results. For real strength, you need to have a healthy body, eat healthy food and most importantly, possess a healthy mind. Whether you are looking to pack on some extra muscles or boost your fitness, you need to fortify you body strength first for max results. Here are some famous capability quotations and sayings to boost your strength and gear you up for some power-packed accomplishments.

The hardest thing about acting is all of the other things you have to think about besides performing... Your image, your team, networking - not to mention the mental strength you need to be able to stay unaffected by the rejection that every actor experiences.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Mike Tyson

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Mariah Carey

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Salma Hayek

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Marcus Aurelius

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Audre Lorde

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

LeBron James

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Helen Keller

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Kim Jong-un

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

Mahesh Babu

I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.

Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Thomas Paine

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Dorothy Day

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Society Lonliness

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Laurence Sterne

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Solitude Mind Lonliness
John Greenleaf Whittier

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Elizabeth Debicki

I loved Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, and Ursula Andress. They had an incredible strength but fragility at the same time, especially Catherine Deneuve, who had an aloofness that impressed me.

Gautama Buddha

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Samuel Johnson

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Leo Buscaglia

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Michael Jordan

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Bhagat Singh

Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.

Harriet Tubman

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

Narendra Modi

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.

Nicole Scherzinger

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.

Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

J. R. R. Tolkien

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Walt Disney

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Pat Riley

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

W. H. Auden

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Marilyn Monroe

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Beyonce Knowles

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

Gal Gadot

I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

Woodrow Wilson

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Swimming History
Ernest Hemingway

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Zoe Saldana

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Khalil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Thomas Merton

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Mignon McLaughlin

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

Demi Lovato

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

What's so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she has the heart and mind of a human. So I play her as I think a woman like me would act in the situations she's going through. You treat her as a normal woman who happens to be fantastic and almighty.

Elizabeth I

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Indira Gandhi

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Mary Steenburgen

It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.

Character Lonliness
William Wordsworth

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Audre Lorde

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Bill Clinton

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Angelina Jolie

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Phil Jackson

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Angelina Jolie

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Deepika Padukone

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Napolean Hill

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Drew Barrymore

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Helen Keller

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.

Strength of 100 men? I'd probably just get mad and hurt somebody and end up in jail. I think invisibility would probably be the best thing. I could be like, 'You know what, let me just see what these folks are talking about over here.' Then you could sneak into Rams cheerleaders' locker room.

Samuel Johnson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Ivanka Trump

For my first fragrance, I wanted to capture the essence of a woman's strength and beauty.

John McCain

America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

Phil Jackson

As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up... so we can focus... so we can be in concert with one another.

Maya Angelou

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Lao Tzu

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

Anais Nin

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Albert Schweitzer

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Ivanka Trump

My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Thomas Jefferson

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Frederick Douglass

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Thomas More

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

Lao Tzu

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Adolf Hitler

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Billy Graham

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Queen Elizabeth II

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Kim Jong-un

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

Sean Penn

There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.

Malala Yousafzai

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

Audre Lorde

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

Vincent Van Gogh

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

George Michael

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

Justin Trudeau

CBC has a very important mandate to bind Canada together in both official languages, tell local stories, and make sure we have a sense of our strength, our culture, our stories.

Culture Togetherness
Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Walter Scott

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Adolf Hitler

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.