Self Strength Quotes:

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

- Moliere

topic: Motivational, Positive, Perseverance, Hurdling Obstacles, Strength In Adversity

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Wise Counsel, Mental Toughness

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

- August Wilson

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Forgiveness, Dark Side, Better Me

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

topic: Motivational, Perseverance, Determination, Self Determination, Inspirational Determination

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

topic: Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One, Valley Of Death, Someone Dying

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Martial Arts Inspirational, Journey To Success

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

- Bob Marley

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Being Strong, Scoliosis, I Am Strong

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

- August Wilson

topic: Strength, Pain, Use, Inspirational Strength, Self Strength

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

- Audrey Hepburn

source: "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

topic: Self Esteem, Firsts, Rate, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Strength Weakness, Strength And Weakness

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Fitness, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Health And Fitness

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Life, Motivational, Being Strong, Strength Of Mind, Will Power

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Confidence, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Confidence

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

- Og Mandino

source: Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

topic: Being Strong, Encouraging, Encouragement, Self Determination, Inspirational Determination

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

- Jesse Owens

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Self Determination, Marathon Motivational

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Spiritual Strength, Strength And Determination

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

- James Whitcomb Riley

topic: Motivational, Perseverance, Determination, Life Determination, Motivation And Determination

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Positive Thinking, Power Of The Mind, Inspirational Bullying

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

topic: Life, Positive, Happiness, Having Strength, Positive Attitude Towards Life

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

- Louis Pasteur

source: "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Self Determination, Inspirational Achievement

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Dare, Inspirational Attitude, Inspirational Courage

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 that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

- Marie Curie

source: "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Empowering Women, Perserverance

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

- Anna Freud

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Confidence, Inspirational Self Confidence, Inspirational Self Esteem

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Marketing And Sales, Infinite Hope

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

- Alex Karras

source: "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

topic: Fitness, Soul, Spirit, Keep A Positive Attitude, Inspirational Strength

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Going To College

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Dream, Nothing Is Impossible, Impossible Dream

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

- Plutarch

topic: Positive, Reality, Achieve, Power To Change, Inspiring Leader

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

The past has no power over the present moment.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Positive, Wisdom, Philosophical, Stress And Anxiety, Past Happiness

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

- Judy Garland

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Indomitable, Indomitable Spirit

The best way out is always through.

- Robert Frost

source: North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants"

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Self Determination, Inspiration And Motivation

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

- John Owen

source: John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Mortification of Sin”, Lulu.com

topic: Self, Soul, Substance, Mortification, Self Strength

We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and free; pure, pure by nature. Can we ever commit any sin? Impossible!' - such a faith is needed. Such a faith makes men of us, makes gods of us. It is by losing this idea of Shraddha that the country has gone to ruin.

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Motivational, Country, Men, Self Strength