Stay strong quotes: power-through tough times with these bad boys.
“If someone is strong enough to bring you down, show them you are strong enough to get back up.”
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”
“Man can live about 40 days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.”
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”
“Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, ‘Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.'”
“Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn’t change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
“Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.”
“I’m stronger because of the hard times, wiser because of my mistakes, and happier because I have known sadness.”
“Feeling fear is human, but conquering it will make you feel empowered, courageous, and proud.”
“When the world says, ‘Give up,’ hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.'”
“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.”
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.”
“You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
“Build upon strengths, and weaknesses will gradually take care of themselves.”
“You never know how strong you are… until being strong is the only choice you have.”
“One small crack does not mean you are broken. It means you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.”
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is true strength.”
“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.”
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”
“The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!”
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart? That’s true strength.”
“Success is what happens after you have survived all your mistakes.”
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.”
“Difficult things take a long time, impossible things take a little longer.”
“Pain can change you, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“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.”
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”
“Life is, at times, tough. And all we need to do is to prove that we are tougher than it.”
“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.”
“The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.”
“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.”
“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 those depths.”
“You’ve got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.”
“Small minds can’t comprehend big spirits. To be great, you have to be willing to be mocked, hated, and misunderstood. Stay strong.”
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”
“The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.”
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
“You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.”
“Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
“Being strong doesn’t mean that you can handle every difficult situation on your own, it means that you have the sense to ask God and others for help.”
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
“Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
“I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward.”
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