Inner Strength Quotes

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidentsof life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service.Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall forman invincible host against difficulty.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

‘Cause sometimes you just feel tired, feel weakAnd when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give upBut you gotta search within youAnd gotta find that inner strengthAnd just pull that shit out of youAnd get that motivation to not give upAnd not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face, and collapse.

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. We all can treat one another with dignity and respect, provide opportunities to grow toward our fullest lives and help one another discover and develop our unique gifts. We each deserve this and we all can extend it to others.

The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.

You've got to find the force inside you.

My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus

The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.

I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

I am sunlight slicing the dark.

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence , which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in our own mind.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain, but they also increase. In fact, once properly developed, the mind's good qualities eventually increase indefinitely. Therefore spiritual practice brings us long-term happiness and inner strength.

While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.

The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.