1. Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.-Katherine Dunham
2. Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.-Maya Angelou
3. Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.-Marie Curie
4. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.-Mahatma Gandhi
5. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do-Eleanor Roosevelt
6. If they hadn’t told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.-Gabourey Sidibe
7. Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.-Paulo Coelho
8. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.-Ernest Hemingway
9. With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.-Dr. Wayne W Dyer
10. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.-Norman Vincent Peale
11. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.-Ambrose Redmoon
12. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.-Seneca
13. If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.-David Viscott
14. You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love-who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dream.-Oprah Winfrey
15. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.-Theodore Roosevelt
16. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.-T. S. Eliot
17. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
18. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.-Vincent Van Gogh
19. Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.-Hasidic Saying
20. He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.-Ben Jonson
21. Live in terms of your strong points. Magnify them. Let your weaknesses shrivel up and die from lack of nourishment.-William Young Elliott
22. Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.-Vivian Greene
23. I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.-Anna Freud
24. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.-Helen Keller
25. You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.-Marcus Aurelius
26. Physical strength is measured by what we carry. Inner strength is measured by what we can bear-Unkown
27. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.-Harriet Tubman
28. Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle-Mark Twain
29. In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.-Laurence Sterne