Inner Strength Quotes for Resilience in Hard Times

Life can throw all kinds of things at us and we often need the inner strength to deal with them. Which is why we have gathered all the best inner strength quotes for your next post. And if you’re looking for short inner strength quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

Inner Strength Quotes

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain

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

“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

“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

“We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine.” – Mark Nepo

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de la Bruyere

“The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” – Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” — Francis de Sales

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” – Greg Kincaid

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” – Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it’s right.” — Rosa Parks

“Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

“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

“Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

“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

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.” — Walt Disney

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Ghandi

“O! it is excellent / To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant.” — William Shakespeare

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” — Christopher Reeve

“It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.” — Winston Churchill

“Conquering others is power; conquering oneself is strength.” — Lao Tzu

“If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.” — John F. Kennedy

“We will either find a way, or make one.” – Anibal Barca

“Don’t mistake politeness for lack of strength.” — Sonia Sotomayor

“O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!” — Phillips Brooks

“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

“I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” — George Eliot

“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.” – Mary Oliver

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” – Gever Tulley

“What does not kill me, makes me stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” – Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” — Og Mandino

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” — Sarah Dessen

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” — Louis Pasteur

“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.” — Maya Angelou

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” – Peter Marshall

“I’ve learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me — the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived.”— Oprah Winfrey

“When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.” — Winston Churchill

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” – Kavita Ramdas

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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

“There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.” — Mother Teresa

“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” – Muhammad Ali

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” — Helen Keller

“If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.” – Michael Jordan

“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.” – Epictetus

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

 “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.

“Grief and resilience live together.” – Michelle Obama, Becoming

“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.

“As for courage and will — we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.” — Andre Norton

“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

“It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.” — Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

“Everything nourishes what is strong already.” — Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice”

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou

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

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” — Steve Maraboli

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

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

“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.” — Samuel Johnson

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

“Look well into yourself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if you will always look there.” — Marcus Aurelius

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

“It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.” — Hippocrates

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.” — Teresa of Ávila

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

“That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.” — Kahlil Gibran

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Focus on your character, not your reputation. Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.” — Roy T. Bennett

“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

“Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.” — Gillian Anderson

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

“Valor is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” — George Whitefield

“Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” — Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice”

“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” — John H. Zenger

“Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” — Misty Copeland

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

“Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore

“Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.” – Rocky Balboa

“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

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” — Marie Curie

“Most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.” — Ted Dekker

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition aspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” – Thomas A. Edison

“What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.” – Meryl Streep

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.” – Alain de Botton

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

“Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin

“When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision — then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde

“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” – Veronica Roth

“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature.” — Bram Stoker, “Dracula”

“Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J.R.R. Tolkein, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

“The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.” — Malcolm Gladwell

So that is it for our list of Inner Strength Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one!

If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Empowering Quotes for Women, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Daily Motivation Quotes, Hope Quotes and Positive Growth Mindset Quotes.