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Quotes About Strength

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most
~ Michelle Kwan
Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.
~ Lena Horne
Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.
~ Rick Warren
I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.
~ Novak Djokovic
Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.
~ RuPaul
May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.
~ John Mayer
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
~ Winona LaDuke
I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger.
~ Chris Weidman
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.
~ Chiang Kai-shek
During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.
~ Arianna Huffington
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
~ Bill Griffith
Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.
~ David Heinemeier Hansson
One breath at a time. One day at a time. Wake up, and be shredded. Cry for a while. Then stop crying and go about your day. You're not okay, but you're alive, and you will be okay, someday.
~ Jasinda Wilder
Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
~ Cathy Freeman
I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time.
~ Misty Copeland
A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.
~ Richard G. Scott
You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.
~ Terry Bradshaw
I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
~ J. K. Rowling
From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.
~ Isabella Rossellini
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
~ Leon Panetta
Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.
~ Timothy Keller