Strength Quotes

Not just muscle and might, but the inner resolve that carries people through impossible situations.

31459 quotes

E
"The strong are made not born."
Emily Brontë
E
"I am the storm and the calm."
Emily Brontë
E
"I am a creature of fire and passion."
Emily Brontë
G
"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
George Bernard Shaw
G
"I never apologize for anything. It is a sign of weakness."
George Bernard Shaw
G
"The reasonable man adapts himself to his environment; an unreasonable man adapts his environment to himself."
George Bernard Shaw
G
"The vilest abuser of women is he who tries to make manhood dependent on them."
George Bernard Shaw
O
"I do not wish to be at the mercy of my emotions."
Oscar Wilde
J
"He wanted to cry faintly, to let his heart out of his body but he could not."
James Joyce
J
"The world is harder and the people are stronger."
James Joyce
A
"I am stronger than I believed myself to be."
Anne Brontë
A
"Forgiveness is not weakness; it is the ultimate strength."
Anne Brontë
A
"The human spirit is capable of enduring what the mind cannot imagine."
Anne Brontë
T
"The world breaks everyone, and some are strong in the broken places."
Thomas Hardy
T
"The strongest bonds are forged in shared adversity, not shared joy."
Thomas Hardy
G
"The small person with a great purpose is stronger than the great person with no purpose."
George Eliot
E
"Strong enough to be alone, wise enough to make amends, and stubborn enough to refuse to be broken."
Emily Brontë
E
"The strength to endure is the grace to survive."
Emily Brontë
E
"The scars we bear are evidence of battles we have survived."
Emily Brontë
W
"Nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent."
William Butler Yeats
C
"I would not be you; not for all the wealth of Croesus."
Charlotte Brontë
C
"I honour virtue; I protect my own sovereignty."
Charlotte Brontë
C
"Better to be despised than pitied."
Charlotte Brontë
C
"I am not meek; I am myself."
Charlotte Brontë
C
"I would rather be a storm than a still pond."
Charlotte Brontë
C
"I believe in the power of the human spirit."
Charlotte Brontë
O
"I believe that if one man were to die, to really die, the whole world would lose an element of strength."
Oscar Wilde
O
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
Oscar Wilde
A
"No coward soul is mine."
Anne Brontë
A
"One must cultivate inner strength before facing outer trials."
Anne Brontë