Top 100 Inner Strength Quotes of All Time

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Embrace your inner resilience with our collection of the top 100 "Inner Strength Quotes" of all time. These quotes delve into the wellspring of strength that resides within us, ready to be tapped into during life's trials. Discover insights from notable minds that celebrate the tenacity and fortitude that define the human spirit.


"Strength lies within you, only you can help yourself."
"The task ahead of you is never greater than your own height."
"Even the darkest tunnel has an end and soon their will be light."
"Everything you need is within you, the strength, courage and confidence to change your life. You just need to look within yourself and find it."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
"Self-love and believing in yourself gives you the power and courage to change your life."
"Don’t feel defeated if your dreams didn’t work out. It took courage to try and take the risk. That’s something to be proud of."
"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”"
"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."
"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength."
"The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
"It takes courage to walk away from disagreements."
"Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
"You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both!"
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."
"The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage."
"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."
"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."
"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience."
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
"Have the courage to act instead of react."
"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
"Like a kite courageous person always rises and achieves new highs going against the wind."
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
"Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads."
"A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for."
"Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing."
"Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health."
"Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out."
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
"It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty."
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."
"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
"You have power over your mind―not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain."
"Inner strength is measured by what we can bear and how long."
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
"Silence is a source of great strength."
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
"Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature."
"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’."
"They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength."
"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."
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
"Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
"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."
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
"Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid."
"Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever."
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"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."
"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t."
"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance."
"We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."
"Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears."
"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."
"And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear."
"Strength is a matter of a made up mind."
"Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."
"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."
"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."
"We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live."
"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."
"Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."
"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems."
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
"Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation."
"Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
"It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop."
"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."
"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."
"Perhaps I am stronger than I think."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
"Leverage the strength that you have: that no one else can be you."
"I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past."
"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you."
"I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me."
"Inner Strength can break any inertia and take you out of comfort zone."
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."
"The sun shines not on us but in us."
"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."