35 Strength Quotes — Discover the Power Within You
True strength includes vulnerability, self-regulation, and perseverance. Using your top character strengths in new ways daily increases happiness by 9% and reduces depression by 15%.
Understanding True Strength
The VIA Institute on Character identifies 24 character strengths. Research by Seligman and Peterson shows using your "signature strengths" in new ways each day increases happiness and decreases depression for up to six months.
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."
"What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful."
"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."
"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."
"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about."
"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
"You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
"She was powerful not because she wasn't scared but because she went on strongly despite the fear."
"A woman is like a tea bag — you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."
"You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls."
"Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it."
"The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg. And in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs."
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."
Finding Your Strengths
- Take the free VIA Character Strengths Survey at viacharacter.org
- Use one signature strength in a new way each day
- Remember: vulnerability, asking for help, and resting are also forms of strength
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