Quiet Strength Quotes:

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

- Tony Dungy

source: Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.16, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Attitude, Circumstances, Quiet Strength

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Girl, People, Empowerment, Women Strength, Quiet Strength

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Good Character, Soul Force

The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth.

- Peter Bayne

topic: Stars, Volcanoes, Hands, Quiet Strength

Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.

- James E. Faust

topic: Strength, Love You, Creativity, Quiet Strength, Hairdos

Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.

- Johann Gottfried Herder

source: "'Die wiedergefundenen Söhne' ('The Recovered Sons', 1801)". The Monthly Religious Magazine, Volume 10, p. 445, 1853.

topic: Passion, Winning, Brave, Quiet Strength, Repayment

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

- Chuck Noll

topic: Football, Character, Stubborn, Quiet Strength, Character Flaws

Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1174, Simon and Schuster

topic: Eye, Glasses, Bears, Quiet Strength

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Men, Years, Important, Quiet Strength, Proud Man