be strong
Hold your ground
Be strong is an encouragement to endure difficulty with resilience or composure.
It urges someone facing hardship—grief, illness, adversity—to maintain emotional fortitude: Be strong for your kids.
The phrase can feel supportive or dismissive depending on context, sometimes implying that showing vulnerability is weakness.
- resilientAble to recover quickly
- endureSuffer through without yielding
- persevereContinue despite obstacles
- keep goingMaintain forward progress
- hang in thereEndure through difficulty
tough it out · never give up · tough · brave · courageous · steadfast · fortitude · grit · iron will · backbone · steel · stiff upper lip · muscles · willpower · unbreakable · solid · firm · sturdy
- pep talkskeep going, you got this, hang in there, keep pushing, believe in yourself
- Transactional Analysistransactions, strokes, scripts, games, structural analysis
- perseverancepersist, never give up, tenacity, hang in there, endurance
emotional resilience
be strongbreak down
Fail mechanically or emotionally
fall apart · crumble · collapse · succumb · crack
strong, being, been, strength, strongly, stronger, strongest, strengthen, strengthened