Tough time doesn’t last but tough people do. Yes, it’s true!! Looking back in time you might have experienced a more tough life and would have said I give up, why it is happening to me. Strong, having or marked by great physical power or able to withstand great force or pressure.
But time heals everything and you were strong enough to withstand the situation and you are still alive. So stay strong, don’t give up. These famous strong quotes will inspire you to stay positive during tough times.
Best Strong Quotes
- “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” – James A. Froude
- “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
- “Never give in.. never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force.. never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” – Winston Churchill
- “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Be very strong… be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.” – Alberto Juantorena, Feeling Strong Quotes
- “I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher.” – Pink, I Need To Be Strong Quotes
- “If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.” – Corrie ten Boom
- “Perhaps I am stronger than I think.” – Thomas Merton, Stand Strong Quotes
- “Remember, a dead fish can float down a stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.” — W.C. Fields
- “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”. – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.” –Masaru Emoto
- “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley
- “Being strong doesn’t mean you’ll never get hurt. It means even when you get hurt, you’ll never let it defeat you.” – Anonymous
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A. A. Milne - “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joseph Kennedy
- “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R Tolkien
- “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
- “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” – Jewish Proverb
- “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie, Trying To Stay Strong Quotes
- “Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” – Publius Ovidius Naso
- “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” – Dr. Seuss
- “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen
- “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” – Christopher Reeve
- “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan
- “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
- “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Strength isn’t about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.” – Jenny Trout
- “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” – Robert Tew
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
- “Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Buddha
- “Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.” – Henry Rollins
- “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” – Susan Gale
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.” – James Frey
- “For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep your head up, and handle it.” – Tupac Shakur
- “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
- “If someone is strong enough to bring you down, show them you’re strong enough to get back up.” – Anonymous
- “Be strong. Things will get better. It might be stormy now but the rain won’t last forever.” – Anonymous
- “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 Kübler-Ross
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran
- “Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There’s no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.” – Carly Patterson
- “Whenever I feel bad, I use that feeling to motivate me to work harder. I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, ‘What are you gonna do about it?’ I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.” – Beyonce Knowles
- “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
- “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
- “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” – Cayla Mills
- “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. Strength comes from overcoming the things you thought you couldn’t.” – Anonymous
- “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon
- “However long the night, the dawn will break.” – African Proverb
- “The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!” — Anne Frank
- “Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, ‘Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.’”
- “The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.”– Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” – Vernon Howard
- “My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down.” – Bob Moore
- “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” – Thomas Edison
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
- “Be strong. You never know who you are inspiring.”
- “Anyone can give up; it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, that’s true strength.” – Chris Bradford
- “Not every day is a good day. You may feel like hell and some you may feel like nothing could be worse. Keep your head up, because someday you will have your day. It could be tomorrow or the next day but that day will come, and it will be the best day of your life, just you wait.” – Ash Sweeney
- “Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.” – Joel Osteen
- “Hardship prepares ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis