Strength - Quotes

Admitting that you need help does not mean you are weak. In fact, it is a sign of strength, maturity and a willingness to learn from others. - Unknown

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. - Jonathan Swift

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

As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength. - Ivan Panin

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now but it can’t rain forever. - Hailee

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. - Havelock Ellis

Consciousness of our strength increases it. - Luc de Clappiers

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

Giving up does not always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. - Unknown

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out. - Katherine Dunham

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. - Unknown

Human beings are like tea-bags. You don’t know your own strength until you get into hot water. - Bruce Laingen

If strength alone ruled, the elephant would be king of the world. - Eliza Cook

In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. - Christian Nestell Bovee

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. - Elbert Hubbard

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don’t know all the answers. - John P. Lougbrane

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test. - Henry Ward Beecher

It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable – when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us – that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory. - George Eliot

Knowing what you believe and sticking by it is a sign of strength. - Unknown

Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. - Marcus Aurelius

Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength and other words – like aggression and even violence. Real strength is neither male nor female; but is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that any human being can possess. - Fred Rogers

Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength. - Robert Anthony

No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in. - Philip K. Dick

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. - Ralph W. Sockman

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

One test of strength is the ability to take defeat graciously. - Lewis F. Korns

Physical strength is measured by what we carry. Inner strength is measured by what we can bear. - Unknown 

Real strength is the capacity to yield when necessary and to resume one’s position without compromising the ideal. - Unknown

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 Lander

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. - Napoleon Hill

Strength and skill are happy comrades. - Maud Lindsay

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark. - Elbert Hubbard 

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

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

Strength doesn't come from what you can do. it comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't. - Unknown

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. - Arthur Helps

Strength is when you have so much to cry for but you prefer to smile instead. - Unknown

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences. - Jennifer Armintrout

Strength shows, not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

That which does not kill me makes me stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest strength expires with loss of breath; the mightiest in one minute stoop to death. - Thomas Kekker

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 Kubler-Ross

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination. - Maya Angelou

The strongest may have need of more strength. - Edward Counsel

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about. - Unknown

To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength. - Friedrich Nietzsche

True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart. - Unknown

True strength is when you have a lot to cry about, but you choose to smile and take another step forward instead. - Unknown

We acquire the strength we have overcome. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always looking outside ourselves for strength and confidence but strength and confidence comes from within. They are there all the time. - Anna Freud

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. - J.K. Rowling

We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside. - Joel Osteen

We must train from the inside out. Using our strengths to attack and nullify any weaknesses. It’s not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist. - Vince McConnell

With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature. - Luc de Clappiers

When you are at your lowest point, you are open to the greatest change. Strength doesn’t come from what you can do, it comes from overcoming the things you thought you couldn’t do. - Unknown

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