113 Quotes on being Strong Alone: Brave in Silence

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113 Quotes on being Strong Alone Brave in Silence

Hello, all you strong and independent souls!

Being alone can feel overwhelming, right? But don’t you think it has a special type of beauty? After all, it is in the quiet moments when the world goes away that we truly know ourselves. I’ve compiled 113 quotes on being strong alone, each reflecting a unique perspective on the beauty of solitude.

Many of these quotes tell us that being alone doesn’t mean being weak. In fact, facing life by yourself can make you stronger! When we read these helpful words, they can give us hope and courage when we need it most.

Whether you’re single, navigating life, or simply need a boost of motivation to appreciate your unique journey, these attitude-infused quotes will remind you that happiness is found within.

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113 Quotes on being Strong Alone Brave in Silence

1. “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” — Henrik Ibsen

2. “Be strong to stand alone.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

3. “Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.”

4. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'”

5. “No one can and no one may. We must walk the path.” — Buddha

6. “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

7. “I am my best work – a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.” — Audre Lorde

8. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

9. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”

10. “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.” — Hafez-e Shirazi

11. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”

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12. “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” — Rollo May

13. “It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.” — Hans F. Hansen

14. “Those who fly solo have the strongest wings.”

15. “In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.” — Laurence Sterne

16. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

17. “In solitude, I found my voice that was lost in the noise of the crowd.”

18. “Your perspective is unique. It’s important and it counts. Try not to compare it to anyone else.”

19. “It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.” — Mahatma Gandhi

20. “Letting go is a choice to refuse to let your past control your future.”

21. “Standing alone doesn’t mean I’m lonely. It means I’m strong enough to handle things by myself.”

22. “If they don’t know what they’re talking about, their words don’t matter.”

23. “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.”

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113 Quotes on being Strong Alone Brave in Silence

24. “Stand up for Truth, even if you stand alone.” — Suzy Kassem

25. “Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think you’ve lost time. There is no short-cutting to life.”

26. “Sometimes you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and where you want to be.”

27. “Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”

28. “The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose.”

29. “There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do.”

30. “Sometimes the universe pushes you to walk alone, not to abandon you, but to show you your strength.”

31. “The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions.”

32. “Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you’re in.”

33. “Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.” — Nikki Rowe

34. “Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confusion of pain to make us see the stars.”

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35. “Find company within yourself and you’ll never spend a day alone. Find love within yourself and you’ll never have a lonely day.” — Connor Chalfant

36. “I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They’re just not around at the moment.” — Cynthia Hand

37. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

38. “I restore myself when I’m alone.”

39. “Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”

40. “A true test of character isn’t how you handle success, but how you handle solitude.”

41. “The best protection any woman can have is courage.”

42. “If you want to be successful, you must be willing to walk alone.” — Unknown

43. “Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.”

44. “Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself, know what you want.”

45. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.”

46. “Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering than enjoying your own company.”

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113 Quotes on being Strong Alone Brave in Silence

47. “The great are strongest when they stand alone, a God-given might of being is their force.” — Sri Aurobindo

48. “Sometimes the only person you can depend on is yourself—and that’s exactly when you find out just how resourceful you truly are.”

49. “Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.”

50. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.”

51. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

52. “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.” — Shaun Hick

53. “You’re single not because you are not good enough for one, it’s that you’re too good for the wrong one.” — Chris Burkmenn

54. “There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.” — Ellen Glasgow

55. “You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

56. “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; Be alone—that is when ideas are born.” — Nikola Tesla

57. “It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.”

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58. “We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly — spending quiet time alone allows your mind to renew itself and create order.” — Susan L. Taylor

59. “What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be.” —Ellen Burstyn

60. “Until you’re comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.”

61. “Being independent is one of the most liberating things you can do. When you are strong alone, you learn to rely on yourself.”

62. “Respecting yourself is the beginning of standing strong in your aloneness.”

63. “When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise.” — Steve Maraboli

64. “When you are alone, it’s easy to focus on the negative. But when you are strong alone, you learn to look at the bright side of things.”

65. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

66. “Your happiness is in your hands. When you are strong alone, you realize that you have the power to create the life you want.”

67. “Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they’ll notice. If they don’t, you know where you stand.”

68. “Alone time is a gift we give ourselves to recharge and reflect.” — Anonymous

69. “Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.” — Unknown

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113 Quotes on being Strong Alone Brave in Silence

70. “By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.” — George Herbert

71. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

72. “Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour

73. “Falling down is an accident, staying down is a choice.”

74. “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” — Henrik Ibsen

75. “The tiger and the lion may be more powerful. But the wolf does not perform in the circus.” — Earl Derr Biggers

76. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

77. “Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.” — Rajneesh

78. “In the end, it’s not about finding someone who completes you, but realizing that you were whole all along.”

79. “The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves.” — Shirley MacLaine

80. “With the right mindset, solitude can be the perfect space to grow into the person you were meant to be.” — Anonymous

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81. “Sometimes the strength within you is not a fiery flame for all to see, it’s just a tiny spark that whispers softly: ‘You got this, keep going.'”

82. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

83. “You were born whole and complete. No one else can validate your existence.”

84. “Alone doesn’t mean lonely. It just means alone. It just means that for now, you’re on your own, and that’s not a terrible thing.” — Hemal Jhaveri

85. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

86. “Your peace is more important than driving yourself crazy trying to understand why something happened the way it did.”

87. “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”

88. “I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

89. “The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” — Justin Timberlake

90. “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

91. Sit with loneliness. Sit with fear. Sit with the temporary discomfort until it passes. Because it will pass.”

92. “Sometimes walking away has nothing to do with weakness, and everything to do with strength.”

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113 Quotes on being Strong Alone Brave in Silence

93. “Sometimes you have to stand alone, just to make sure you still can.” — Monica Murphy

94. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. But sometimes, you need to go both fast and far—that’s when you must learn to be strong alone.”

95. “Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.”

96. “You may feel cast off, but you are never truly alone. Your spirit, your ingenuity and your dignity belong to you and you alone.”

97. “It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.”

98. “You are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on.”

99. “You are never alone; if you can talk to your conscience.” — M.F. Moonzajer

100. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all.”

101. “The strongest actions for a woman are to love herself, be herself, and shine amongst those who never believed she could.”

102. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

103. “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”

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104. “People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of autonomy is shameful to them, like the idea of refusing to breathe underwater.”

105. “Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.” — Roy T. Bennett

106. “Sometimes being alone is the upgrade.”

107. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

108. “There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice.”

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

110. “It’s only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.” — Mizu Sahara

111. “You have to be odd to be number one.”

112. “I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.”

113. “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”

I hope you enjoy these quotes on being strong alone. May they be an encouragement and an inspiration to you.

There are several amazing quotes here, and I claim no credit for any of them personally. They are all credited to far better thinkers than myself. I’ve done my best to properly attribute quotes to their original sources.

Now it’s your turn. If I missed any quotes, please share them with me in the comments section below, and I’ll gladly add them to the list.

Thanks for reading

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