Best 15 Encouraging & Inspiring Quotes about Strength
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Welcome to our collection of strength quotes! It was almost 2,000 years ago that the Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius said, “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

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1. Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu

2. When strength is yoked with justice,
where is a mightier pair than they?
Aeschylus

3. Good actions give strength to ourselves
and inspire good actions in others.
Plato

4. I am climbing a difficult road;
but the glory gives me strength.
Sextus Propertius

5. Courage conquers all things:
it even gives strength to the body.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid

Where is the man who has the strength to be true,
and to show himself as he is?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6. Only actions give life strength;
only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul

7. Courage isn’t having the strength to go on –
it is going on when you don’t have strength.
Napoleon Bonaparte

8. Patience is the support of weakness;
impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton

9. People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Marie Hugo

10. Work is not man’s punishment.
It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin

11. The strength of criticism lies
in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow