Quotes About Strength

Weakness, he has learned, isn't in the arm or the leg or the back. Weakness is in the mind.

Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time.

Eleanor Herman

O do not be born a woman, if you want your own way. —Lucrezia de' Medici O

A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

No man is defeated without until he is defeated within.

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 which you think you cannot do.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Courage is exhilarating.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ? Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

Meeting smaller emergencies and learning to deal with them had given me the confidence to deal with this larger emergency. So, little by little, I found out how to do things. After each catastrophe you don't worry so much the next time, and each time you emerge stronger from your victory.

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.

Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent

In the very desire for help one is apt to forget that the objective should be to enable the individual to stand on his own feet.