95 Staying Strong Sayings and Quotes in Difficult Times

A collection of some of the very best motivating staying strong sayings and quotes that would give you the courage you need to pull through during difficult times. There are moments in life when we face hardship and moments when an unexpected guest comes knocking at the door. We need these quotes to help us through what life throws at us. One of my favorite quotes by Robert H. Schuller - "Tough times never last, but tough people do.". Do you count yourself as one of the tough guys?

Staying Strong Quotes (Staying Strong Sayings)

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Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path - Unknown

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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things. - Ken Kesey

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

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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye. - Helen Keller

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Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it. - Harriet Morgan

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Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached. - Swami Vivekananda

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

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You can always take the easy way out and give up, but real strength comes when you decide to keep pushing forward no matter what the circumstances are. - Unknown

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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. - Bernice Johnson Reagon

Quote About Staying Strong

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Remember everything is solvable and if you can't see a solution, it only means you haven't worked it out yet. - Gary John Bishop

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities:

It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. - Thomas Carlyle

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If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes. - Corrie ten Boom

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Stay strong, be brave, love hard and true, and you will have nothing to lose. - Demi Lovato

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Being strong doesn't mean that you can handle every difficult situation on your own, it means that you have the sense to ask God and others for help. - Nishan Panwar

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Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. - Christian Larson

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Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. - Knute Rockne

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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. - Andrew Carnegie

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Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt

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Get connected to your reality, your real life, instead of your emotionally soaked narrative about your life. - Gary John Bishop

Trying to be Strong

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power. - Jim Morrison

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Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence. - Norman Vincent Peale

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Pain is temporary - The pain you feel today is only to get strength to face tomorrow. - Sivaprakash Sidhu

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Life can be so difficult at times, but fighting through the pain is so worth it. It’s better to feel every kind of emotion than to not feel at all. - Demi Lovato

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Pain makes you stronger. Tears make you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser. And vodka makes you not remember any of that crap. - Nishan Panwar

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Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines. - Robert Schuller

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Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan

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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. - Henry Ford

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The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under. - Anne Frank

Stay Strong for Yourself

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You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. - Cayla Mills

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You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. - Bob Marley

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal:

it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

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When you're not sure if you're following the right path, when you've been knocked down a few too many times, it's completely fine to get discouraged, hell even defeated. What's not okay is to stop. - Gary John Bishop

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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. - Lao Tzu

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Things happen to you to make you realize your true potential, strength, will power, and heart. You've got to have faith. - Dr. Byron Hayes

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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa

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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. - Joseph Conrad

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Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. - Susan Gale

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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott

Inspiring Quotes About Strength

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Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. - Thomas Paine

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

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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear. - Gabby Douglas

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The worst part about being strong is that no one ever asks if you're ok. - Unknown

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It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty. - Dalai Lama

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Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul. - Carlos Barrios

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. - Louisa May Alcott

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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never Give-up

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Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Robert H Schuller

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Fall down seven times, get up eight. - Japanese Proverb

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A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is. - Nancy Reagan

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I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person. - Rita Mero

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If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences. - Criss Jami

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If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

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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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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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It is during our darkest moments that ew must focus to see the light. - Aristotle

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - James A. Froude

Strength and Courage

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Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel. - Melissa Etheridge

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Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy. - Sanaa Lathan

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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. - H.G. Wells

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I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I'm doing it myself. - Albert Einstein

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

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. - Joseph Kennedy

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If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. - Masaru Emoto

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You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times. - Tilman J. Fertitta

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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go trough hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Unknown

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Promise me you'll always remember:

You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - A. A. Milne

Believe in Yourself

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Build upon strengths, and weaknesses will gradually take care of themselves. - Joyce C. Lock

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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. - John F Kennedy

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller

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Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong. - Muhammad Ali

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

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The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - Christopher Robin

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A heart is a strong muscle and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back STRONGER. - Ivan Avendano

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Just as a broken arm needs a cast, we too need support mechanisms in order to make it through difficult times. - Holly Wagner

Overcoming Challenges

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Not everyday is a good day. You may feel like hell and some you may feel like nothing could be worse. Keep your head up, because someday you will have your day. It could be tomorrow or the next day but that day will come, and it will be the best day of your life, just you wait. - Ash Sweeney

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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'. - Mary Anne Radmacher

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Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. - Susan Gale

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Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force, never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. - Winston Churchill

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will. - Dr. Robert Anthony

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Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God's word, and trust the process. - Germany Kent

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A strong women is someone who is able to smile this morning like she wasn't crying last night. - Harriet Morgan

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Life is, at times, tough. And all we need to do is to prove that we are tougher than it. - Sanhita Baruah

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The first step is you have to say that you can. - Will Smith

Stay Calm and Be Strong

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Sometimes, being strong is to forgive in the name of love, to make someone smile when our own heart is broken, to comfort a friend when we ourselves needed help and to keep faith when we have lost hope. - Brigitte Nicole

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It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared. - Lena Dunham

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There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong. - Mary J. Blige

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It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always. - Oprah Winfrey

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Smiling does not necessarily mean you're happy. Sometimes it just means you're strong. - Nishan Panwar

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Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go. - Daniel Stern

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We do not have to remain stuck in our trials! We go through them and as daughters of the King, we can rise in the midst of dark, shaking moments. - Holly Wagner