“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” ~ John Quincy Adams

“You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both!” ~ Brene Brown

“They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.” ~ Curtis Joseph

“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.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” ~ Buddha

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“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

“Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.” ~ Lao Tzu

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” ~ Edmund Hillary

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”~ Hermann Hesse

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” ~ Franklin P. Jones

“The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost

“Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” ~ Lana Del Rey

“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”~ William Ellery Channing

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”~ Khalil Gibran

“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.”~ Vincent Van Gogh

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”~ Criss Jami

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” ~ Paulo Coelho

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” ~ Jodi Picoult

“We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.” ~ Isabel Allende

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”~ J.K. Rowling

“Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.”~ Demi Lovato

“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”~ Louisa May Alcott

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”~ Maya Angelou

“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.”~ Paulo Coelho

“Strength is a matter of a made up mind.” ~ John Beecher

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” ~ Orison Swett Marden

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” ~ Thomas Paine

“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” ~ Nelson Mandela

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.” ~ Charles Dickens

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” ~ Winston Churchill

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~ Maya Angelou

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” ~ Ambrose Redmoon

“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.” ~ Japanese proverb

“The task ahead of you is never greater than your own height.” ~ Invajy

“Perhaps I am stronger than I think.” ~ Thomas Merton

“Leverage the strength that you have: that no one else can be you.” ~ Todd Wheatland

“I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.” ~ Atticus

“Even the darkest tunnel has an end and soon their will be light”. ~Invajy

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” ~ Ovid

“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” ~ Joshua Graham

“Inner Strength can break any inertia and take you out of comfort zone.” ~ Invajy

You have power over your mind―not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”  ~ Marcus Aurelius