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Quotes about inner strength and resilience. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest strength quotes ever written — from Marcus Aurelius, Helen Keller, Lao Tzu and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

— Marcus Aurelius

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.

— Helen Keller

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

— Lao Tzu

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life — but a smooth road never made a skilful driver.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

— Albert Einstein

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

— Rudyard Kipling

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

— J. K. Rowling

Women hold up half the sky.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

— Oprah Winfrey

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.

— Khalil Gibran

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

We learn more from the winds of adversity than from the smooth seas of prosperity.

— Seneca

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

Unity is strength, division is weakness.

— African Proverb

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle.

A determined mind and a strong will bear endless possibilities.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

— English Proverb

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

— Chinese Proverb

The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

A woman is like a tea bag — you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

— Aristotle

You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

— Maya Angelou

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

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

When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is all about.

— Haruki Murakami

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

— Rumi

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