Inner Strength famous quotes
05-24-2025
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Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.
-- Amit Ray -
I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought.
-- Arthur Blank -
When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems. You will notice at times that the new life isn't what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn't how I define prayer. I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
-- Bernie Siegel -
I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.
-- Charlotte Rampling -
You have deep within you the power to fulfill your highest vision of your life. To engage this power you must develop a solid personal relationship with yourself. By doing so, you'll tap into a wealth of inner strength that will allow you to take the necessary actions that build confidence and self-esteem. When you learn to stop hiding your power and use fear to your advantage, you'll become less attached to what others want for you and more attached to what you want for yourself. As this shift occurs, you'll naturally begin to lead a more authentic and passionate life.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of hardship comes a greater capacity to accept difficulties without losing our sense of inner calm. Of course, I do not advocate seeking out hardship as a way of life, but merely wish to suggest that, if you relate to it constructively, it can bring greater inner strength and fortitude.
-- Dalai Lama -
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
-- Dalai Lama -
Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.
-- Dalai Lama -
If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.
-- Dalai Lama -
Cultivating care and concern for others gives rise to a kind of inner strength. No matter what difficulties or problems you face, in this wider context they’ll seem less significant and troubling to you. The inner strength, self-confidence and courage you gain by focussing on others’ needs instead of your own, brings with it a deep, calm sense of satisfaction.
-- Dalai Lama -
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 -
The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others.
-- Deepak Chopra -
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
-- Donald Miller -
Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.
-- Donald O. Clifton -
You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things.
-- Duane Chapman -
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?
-- Georges Bernanos -
Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.
-- Georgette Mosbacher -
My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.
-- GG Allin -
To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.
-- Haki R. Madhubuti -
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
-- John Bradshaw -
He lay before God as a woman opens herself to a man, with legs apart, stomach exposed, arms open. But unlike some women, he did not have the inner strength that allowed them to do such a thing without fear. There was no woman’s strength in Mellas at all.
-- Karl Marlantes -
Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love....When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.
-- Krishna Das -
If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.
-- Kurt Warner -
When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.
-- Paul Brunton -
By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
-- Pema Chodron -
We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting state. In a world where proms and marriage define the social order, we are, by force of our personalities and inner strength, rebels.
-- Sasha Cagen -
Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.
-- Stephen King -
...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.
-- Terry Brooks -
Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves.
-- Tony Robbins -
There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding.
-- Tony Robbins -
Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.
-- Tony Robbins -
[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.
-- Viktor E. Frankl -
If we flaunt our wealth, we make enemies of people who have only their inner strength to get them through. And those are the people I want on my side.
-- Meg O'Brien -
I have certainly faced my fair share and will likely come across more. These experiences have been fuel for my music. Facing these challenges has forced me to recognize my own inner strength.
-- Wendy Starland -
Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.
-- David Lilienthal
