Strong Life Quotes:

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.

- Louise Erdrich

source: "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

topic: Love, Life, Strength, Life Is Complicated, Hurting Yourself

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Moving On, Time To Move On, Cycle Of Life

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.327, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, I Am Strong, Inspirational Stay Strong

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Being Strong, Men, Stronger, Strong Man, I Am Strong

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Inspirational, Being Strong, Fitness, Martial Arts Inspirational, Speed Limits

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

- Phillips Brooks

source: Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

topic: Life, Men, Miracle, Praying To God, I Pray

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Just Stay Strong, Never Forgive

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

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

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspiring, Struggle, I Hate You, Just Stay Strong, Inspirational Stay Strong

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Strong Man, I Am Strong

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

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Attitude, Struggle, Moving, Mentally Tough, Sports Mental Toughness

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: I Am Strong, Special Needs, Special Needs Children, Just Give Up, Just Stay Strong

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Leadership, Hurt And Pain, Hurt My Feelings

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

- Chris Bradford

topic: Strength, Being Strong, Courage, Special Needs, Special Needs Children

All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have clean air, clear water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, 'die'.

- John Africa

topic: Weed, Dog, Strong, Strong Life, Clear Water

Strong lives are those that are marked by a sense of purpose, connectedness, resilience, and fulfillment.

- Jenifer Fox

source: Jenifer Fox (2008). “Your Child's Strengths: A Guide for Parents and Teachers”, p.28, Penguin

topic: Strength, Strong, Resilience, Connectedness, Strong Life

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Nothing Is Impossible, Massive Change

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

- Ai Weiwei

topic: Strong, Childhood, Sometimes, Strong Life

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

source: "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

topic: Strong, Giving, Healthy, Strong Life, Robust

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Humorous, Mind, Littles, Strength And Life, Strength And Love

Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1838). “Oliver Twist: Or, The Parish Boy's Progress”

topic: Beautiful, Summer, Strong, Strong Life, Summer Sun

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

- Marcus Buckingham

source: Marcus Buckingham (2009). “Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Strong, Emotional, Secret, Strong Life, Emotional Reactions

Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

- Melissa Etheridge

source: Song: Silent Legacy, Album: Yes I Am

topic: Mother, Strong, Children, Strong Life, Wonder Love

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

- Carlos Castaneda

source: Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.74, Univ of California Press

topic: Life, Strong, Truthful, Strong Life

A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

- H. E Davey

topic: Strong, Powerful, Yoga, Strong Life, Powerful Life