Here is a collection of 22 Strength & Courage Quotes, for a little inspiration to get you through those hard times.

Strength & Courage Quotes

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

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” - Tony Robbins

“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope” - Hal Lindsey

“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

“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

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious dont live at all.” – Ashley L

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” - Unknown

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

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

“True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.” - Unknown

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Chinese Proverb

“You were given this life, because you are strong enough to live it.” – Robin Sharma

“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

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus

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

“Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, “Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.” – Unknown

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” - Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” - Bruce Lee

“In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ― Drew Barrymore 

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill

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Quotes are everywhere nowadays, they are great to see and sometimes hard to remember. We are all guilty of taking something in but not really acting on it and you know what they say, “actions speak louder than words“.

So we have decided to share with you, a number of carefully picked motivational, inspirational and success wallpaper & picture quotes to take everywhere with you as a daily reminder, when you need a little inspiring push in the right direction.

35 Inspirational Picture Quotes & Wallpapers

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23 Rare Motivational Quotes to inspire the lazy, complainers, procrastinators and the ‘all talk, no walk’ people out there.

Everybody needs a little motivation sometimes so share these around and take ACTION! In your life right now, execute that plan you have been talking about all week. It’s never too late to make it happen!

Rare Motivational Quotes

‎”It’s always down to you and the choices you make. Work on the things you can change and never dwell on the things you can’t. You choose… ‘results’ or ‘excuses’ it’s always down to YOU… no one has ever given their BEST and regretted it. GO HARD NO EXCUSES.”

“No one said this would be easy, just know that nothing beats the feeling of accomplishment.”

‎”Turn those dreams into ACTION …action turns into results… sooner or later you will be living the dream.”

“There’s no substitute for consistency.”

‎”Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit…. KEEP GOING!!”

“Hardwork can out-do genetics!!”

“Whatever doesn’t kill me… had better start running”

‎”Our fears don’t stop death,… they stop life.”

“Do it now. Sometimes ‘later’ becomes ‘never.’”

“Kick yourself in the ass, or someone else will.”

“The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret.”

‎”I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy… I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.”

“Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you results.”

“Dear tomorrow, do whatever you wanna do .. I have already lived my today and I am not afraid of you anymore .”

“If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the power of our words, we would prefer silence to anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and strengths. Our limitations begin in our hearts where we can always replace negative with positive.”

“You can have results or excuses. Not both”

“You will never know your limits until you push yourself to them.”

“Pain is just weakness leaving your body.”

“I was not delivered into this world in defeat nor does failure flow through my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, walk, to merge with the sheep. I will not hear those who weep and complain for their thoughts are contagios. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure…Is not my destiny.”

‎”Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who are willing to work for it”

“Set small goals for yourself and meet them. You are responsible to take care of yourself. You should be your priority!!”

‎”If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone…deal with it!!”

“Failure does not mean defeat; to succeed you must fail first.”

If these motivational quotes don’t get you off your ass then I don’t know what will. Read on for a truly inspiring fist full of motivational quotes!

35 Awesome Kick Ass Quotes!

‎”Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” -Audrey Hepburn

NEVER GIVE-UP: “So many people can be responsible for your Success.
but only you are responsible for your failure.” – Unknown

There are two types of Pain in this world: Pain that hurts you, and Pain that changes you!  - Unknown

Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.  - Unknown

‎”You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.” – Neale Donald Walsch

‎”Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” – Ruth E. Renkel

‎”Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.” – Lance Armstrong

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” – Thomas Jefferson

its not up to you how you fall. Its up to you how far you let yourself fall and how long it takes you to get back up and stand on your own two feet” - Sr. Tac Jeffrey Mitchell

‎”Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” - Charles F. Kettering

If you can’t be criticized for it, it’s probably not remarkable. Are you devoting yourself to something devoid of criticism? – Unknown

“It’s human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn’t banging loudly on the door.” – David Hackworth

“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney

Push through the pain, and conquer the obstacles. Regardless of what you think today, it wont matter 5 years from now. SO DON’T BE AFRAID!  - Unknown

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.  - Unknown

Do you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears?  - Unknown

Think outside of the box, create your own path in life. “You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.”
~ Daniel Knode

‎”The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” …so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. – Leo Tolstoy

NO EXCUSES: 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.  - Unknown

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. Every successful person did, what no one else was willing to do!  - Unknown

The so called negative feedback is often love in disguise. Take full advantage!  - Unknown

Many fear competition from others. But the biggest critic should be the person in the mirror.  - Unknown

‎”Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.” - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. The most successful people take action while they’re afraid!  - Unknown

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.  - Unknown

Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will NEVER be a perfect time to pursue your dreams & goals.  - Unknown

‎”When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” - Eric Thomas

You will get what you want, when you stop making excuses on why you don’t have it.  - Unknown

Why have you not broken from the pack? You’re playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world” -Stone Cold Steve Austin (WWE Superstar)

Don’t always scrape & search for compliments. Criticism is what builds character & strength!  - Unknown

There’s a thin line between losing & winning. Losing breeds winners. The main recipe to success is through failures & hardships! - Unknown

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Bill Gates, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.  - Unknown

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.  - Unknown

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

Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does no one else.  - Unknown

Marketing genius Seth Godin explains how to take your idea to the next level. Seth Godin gets you thinking about how close you really could be to having your idea successfully out there in the world and he shows us all how simple it can be. Enjoy!

Seth Godin: The Ideas That Spread, Win

I have compiled 30 of my favorite quotes that I find has helped me through tough times over the years. Sometimes we need a few pointers on inner strength, this in turn makes us realize that we aren’t the only ones who have gone through hard times, that no ones an exception and that we can get through it with a little bit of positive hope and a handful of lines for guidance. Enjoy! And Good Luck with overcoming your obstacles.

 Tough Times Quotes

“Pain is your friend; it is your alie. Pain reminds you to finish the job and get the hell home. Pain tells you when you have been seriously wounded. And you know what the best thing about pain is? It tells you you’re not dead yet!” – G.I Jane

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

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them. – Unknown

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.  -Leroy Satchel Paige

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. – Jewish Proverb

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.  - William Hazlitt

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. – Malcolm S Forbes

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit

“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” – Unknown

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

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. - Ulysses S. Grant

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.  –Seneca

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. – Albert Schweitzer

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. – Publilius Syrus

Adversity is a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.  – Unknown

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

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. – Charles M Schwab

The true test of a person character is how they stand during test of adversity - Unknown

“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

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. – William Samuel Johnson

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. – Publilius Syrus

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me. – Dr. Seuss

In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. – Lee Iacocca

We have a list of The Top 25 Inspirational Quotes for the Movers & The Shakers out there. Read through these for a little Motivation on your way to the top.

The Top 25 Quotes By Movers & Shakers

“We’re not meant to operate like computers. Human beings are designed to pulse between spending/renewing energy.” —Tony Schwartz

“Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.”—Frans Johansson

“You can’t get to wonderful without passing through alright.” —Andrew Zuckerman

“‘Luck’ is recognizing when the situation encourages build out and execution.” —Jack Dorsey

“What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.” —Seth Godin

If we doubted our Fears instead of doubting our dreams, Imagine how much in life we’d accomplish. - Joel Brown

“When you give something, just for the joy of creating, it always comes back on a much larger scale.” —Ji Lee

“If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.” —Starlee Kine

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” —Fred Wilson

“All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they’re alive.”—John Maeda

“Reduce everything you want to do, to an action you can do right now.”—Jason Randal

“If you’re not creating waves, then you’re not pushing enough.” —Jared Cohen

“Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong.” —Diego Rodriguez

“Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.” —Simon Sinek

“Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future.” —Chris Guillebeau

“Align your inner vision with your outer work.” —Martin Ping

“The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.” —Beth Comstock

“When fear and doubt come into play, lead with possibility.” —Laura Guido-Clark

“Figure out what’s realistic, and then just do it.” —Jake Nickell

“Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing.”—Josh Foer

“Crazy is a compliment.” —Linda Rottenberg

“The problem contains the solution.” —Michael Bierut

“A good partnership is more than the sum of its parts.” —Sigi Moeslinger

“Controversy gets your work out there.” —Jill Greenberg

“Our mantra: brutal prioritization, maniacal focus.” —Jeffrey Kalmikoff

After hours and hours of digging through the archives of Quotes on the world wide web, we have found the most felt Powerful Quotes from around the world fromover 20 different sources.

The people have spoken and these here are 23 of the Worlds Most Powerful Quotes!

A Powerful Collection Of Success, Motivation & Inspirational Quotes

“What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have – and you don’t have to be a ‘Superman’ to do it.”

~ Christopher Reeve (1952 – 2004) American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter

“I’ve missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trustedto take the game-winning shot … and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life.And that is why I succeed.”

~ Michael Jordan, American professional basketball player, active businessman.

“Trials, temptations, disappointments — all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than…it was before.”

~ James Buckham (1844 – 1930),Canadian lumberman and Liberal politician.

“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”

~ Anthony Robbins, NLP Master & International Motivational Speaker

“Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.”

~ James A. Ray, motivational speaker and author.

“I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.”

~ Sylvester Stallone,American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film director.

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”

~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821),military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900),19th-century German philosopher.

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

~ Buddha , spiritual teacher from the north eastern region of South Asia who founded Buddhism.

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

~ Jim Morrison(1943 – 1971) American singer, songwriter, poet, writer and filmmaker.

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

~ Steve Jobs, CEO Of Apple, American business magnate and inventor.

“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

~ Muhammad Ali, American boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion.

“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”

~ Abraham Lincoln,(1809 – 1865) 16th President of the United States

“Your mind is like a garden. If you plant seeds of love, compassion, truth and integrity, then you reap the rewards. If you choose not to plant anything, then weeds will overrun your garden; the weeds of hate, anger, negative thoughts and actions.” ~ Barry Gottlieb

“When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

~ Napoleon Hill (1883 – 1970) American author

“Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945.

“I have not failed. I’ve simply discovered 10,000 ways that don’t work.”

~ Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) American inventor, scientist and businessman

“I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.”

~ J.C. Penney, businessman

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~ Mark Twain(1835 – 1910),American author and humorist.

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

~ Lao Tzu (c 604 BCE),mystic philosopher of ancient China.

“As for worrying about what other people might think – forget it. They aren’t concerned about you. They’re too busy worrying about what you and other people think of them.”~ Michael le Boeuf

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; It’s whether you get back up.”

~ Vince Lombardi (1913 – 1970) ,American football coach.

With over 60 Million copies sold worldwide, “Think & Grow Rich” By Napoleon Hill is one of the most profound books read in many successful peoples lives and also the blueprint for the worlds best motivational speakers.

We have taken 15 of the Richest Quality quotes (In Our Opinion) from the book to share with you to apply in your life which will undoubtedly help you on your road to success.

The Top Think & Grow Rich Quotes

• “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”

• “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.”

• “The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”

• “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

• “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

• “Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”

• “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle…”

• “The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”

• “The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

• “The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

• “Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

• “Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.”

• “Fears are nothing more than a state of mind”

• “Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach”

• “If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.”