CURATED COLLECTION

Inner Strength

The reserves you didn't know you had — on finding steadiness beneath the surface.

50 quotes found

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My soul, endure patiently the decrees of fate, for destiny cannot be changed.

—Mustafa Safi al-Din al-Tughra'iPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Suffering often makes a person stronger, if they do not break.

—Ding LingFeminist & Writer

Post-War ERA • East Asia

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

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Pies, ¿para qué los quiero si tengo alas para volar?

—Frida KahloPainter

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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Far better it is to have a stout heart and a poor hope than none at all.

—HerodotusHistorian

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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We didn’t know we were survivors. We just survived.

—Tommy OrangeAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the will to act despite it.

—Tāwini TetuanuiAuthor & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Oceania

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I am not a quitter. I will fight till I drop. It is just the way I am.

—Cicely TysonAuthor & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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A man can be as great as he wants to be. If he believes in himself and has the courage.

—John SteinbeckNovelist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

—Charlotte BrontëNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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My path is lonely, but I walk with my head held high.

—Mahadevi VarmaPoet & Writer

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

—Eleanor RooseveltDiplomat & Activist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

—Friedrich NietzschePhilosopher

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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From suffering, if one endures, comes an unimaginable strength.

—Armando ValladaresPoet

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway.

—Harper LeeNovelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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It is in the nature of a king to be attacked. But it is in the nature of the lion to endure.

—Sundiata KeitaKing

Medieval ERA • West Africa

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Patience is a great source of strength. It helps us face difficulties with calm and wisdom.

—Dalai Lama (14th)Spiritual Leader

Late Modern ERA • East Asia

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Even in suffering, there was dignity; a quiet, unyielding strength.

—Joseph ZobelNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Caribbean

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

—Mahatma GandhiLawyer

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

—John MiltonPoet & Intellectual

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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