Top 73 Uplifting Quotes That Will Make You Strong

1. “To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.” ― Gail Sheehy

2. “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” ― Oscar Wilde

3. “There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.” ― Laure Manaudou

4. “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”– Mary Engelbreit

5. “If you embrace your flaws, nobody can use them against you.”– Cara Alwill Leyba

6. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas Edison

7. “Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.” ― Kenneth Branagh

8. “Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.” ― Naval Ravikant

9. “Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines.” ― Robert Schuller

10. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”– Duke Ellington

11. “Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.”– Anonymous

12. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.”– Confucius

13. “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― A. A. Milne/Christopher Robin

14. “Hard times lifts the seeking souls to higher spiritual realms.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

15. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”―H.G. Wells

16. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”– David Brinkley

17. “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth.” ― Unknown

18. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― Christopher Robin to Pooh, A.A. Milne

19. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ― Joshua J. Marine

20. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”– James Allen

21. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day-out.”– Robert Collier

22. “Light tomorrow with today.”– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

23. “We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.” ― William J. Brennan

24. “Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existence.” ― Sarah Dessen

25. “Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness and bad days give you experience.” ― Author Unknown

26. “Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”– William James

27. “Hard times may have put you down sometimes but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be wise and strong.” ― Anurag Prakash Ray

28. “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.”– Napoleon Hill

29. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” ― Bob Marley

30. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” ― Les Brown

31. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching.” ― William W. Purkey

32. “Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.” ― Jewel

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

34. “You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.” ― Dr. Seuss

35. “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.” ― Coco Chanel

36. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ― Omar Kayyam

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

38. “Don’t search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love.” ― Maxime Lagacé

39. “When you know better, you do better.” ― Maya Angelou

40. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ― Robert H. Schuller

41. “Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.” ― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

42. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ― Maya Angelou

43. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”– George Lorimer

44. “One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now.”– Caroline Webb

45. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Soren Kierkegaard

46. “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”– Colette

47. “Choose to be optimistic; it feels better.” ― Dalai Lama

48. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”– Francis Chan

49. “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” ― Zig Ziglar

50. “Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” ― Gary Keller

51. “Hard times, when held with open hands and a tender heart, can prepare us for the future.” ― Cindee Snider Re

52. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” ― Vivian Greene

53. “Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ― Harvey Fierstein

54. “Don’t let anyone speak for you, and don’t rely on others to fight for you.” ― Michelle Obama

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

56. “He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.”– William Samuel Johnson

57. “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” ― Seneca The Younger

58. “A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can’t be good at everything.”– Kelly Williams Brown

59. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”– Robert Frost

60. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ― Alice Walker

61. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” ― Madeleine Albright

62. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”– Anonymous

63. “We grow great by dreams.” ― Woodrow Wilson

64. “Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.” — Joel Osteen

65. “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln

66. “If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.” ― Taylor Swift

67. “You only live once, but if you do it right once is enough.” ― Mae West

68. “To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.”– Barbara DeAngelis

69. “No one is perfect — that’s why pencils have erasers.” ― Anonymous

70. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston Churchill

71. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day-out.”– Robert Collier

72. “Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”– Jacques Prevert

73. “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

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