Strength Quotes

Enjoy our collection of famous strength quotes to live by. The definition of strength varies in circumstance as well as by one's own experience through life. The main element of strength seems to be that attribute that is more often noticed by others than obvious to oneself. Here are a couple to start with; "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." by Napoleon Hill and, "To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage." by Lao Tzu.

When you mess up, it is important not to wallow in your misery for very long. Lick your wounds, but get over it all pretty quickly. You have to move on.
~ Larry Winget, People Are Idiots And I Can Prove It!

Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so that you can do what you really want to do.
~ Barry Silverstein, Motivating Employees

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
Eleanor Roosevelt

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.
Audre Lorde

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Robert Kiyosaki

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
John Beecher

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
Tao Te Ching

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

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential
Winston Churchill

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mohandas Gandhi

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.
Michael Jordan

Some people would also argue that part of strength is also morality. For those who hold this belief, we have also added morality quotes to live by so these expressions can begin to be considered as you mold your life or help someone else to do the same.

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G.K. Chesterton

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Voltaire

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Milan Kundera

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry B. Adams

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Mignon McLaughlin

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
Goethe




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