Quotes About Strength

My strength of character is a privilege. I can do anything to survive. I don't break easily.

That callousness that comes from feeling like you have to survive on your own - I really empathized with that.

By the time I was in high school, I was big enough to beat the hell out of everybody who said anything to me. And I learned how to blend in. All of that made me a very confident man. A very aggressive man. I developed it to survive.

I think my grandfather had the most incredible strength of character to be able to survive the war and I hope that that is one of the great strengths that he has passed through to my father and through to me.

I'm real and honest, and I take things day by day. That's just the way to survive.

I've been able to survive a lot of things, and I am especially interested in survivor stories.

I am ready to do whatever I need in order to survive.

Pre-workout meal, I eat eggs over toast with cheese because I need that protein before I work out.

My grandmom worked as a maid for most of her life, and she worked in the tobacco and the cotton fields, whatever she could get.

We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'

I'm today's woman, candid and a woman of substance.

I was six months pregnant when my brother died and my daughter was four-months-old when my mother expired. Gradually, I developed an inner resilience as today I believe there is a rainbow at the end of each storm.

Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don't talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose.

From my family, my mum, auntie and nan were all strong women and why I am who I am today.

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.

My mother gave birth to me on the floor of our apartment in Mecca with only my toddler sister to help her because my father was at work and no male guardian was available to take her to a hospital.

In 'The Condemned,' if you saw the movie, that's all me; I'll go toe to toe with anyone in an action movie.

I've had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline's pumping, and you just carry on!

Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.

'GLOW' was the first time that, from head to toe, I was asked to use my body in a functional, powerful way as an actor - and that felt amazing.