Quotes About Strength

When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

I refuse to bow to the cancel mob.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion.

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

I've still got it. I refuse to lose.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field.

I'm fighting cancer and I refuse to give up.

Over the years, I've had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That's where I learnt the blunt side of my character.

I sometimes feel less than empty; I feel non-existent. Still, I endure. I refuse to give up.

My message to women - including women of color - stand strong. Refuse to be minimized or patronized. Let all the small guys out there be intimidated by you.

I just refuse to lose.

I refuse to give up.

I kind of will over everything. There will be situations where like 'I refuse!'

I guess when you take a look at the book 'Atlas Shrugged,' I think most people always like to identify with the main character - that would be John Galt. I guess I identify with Hank Rearden, the fella that just refused until the very end to give up.

My friends and family refused to give up on me even when I gave up on myself, and I wanted to hopefully encourage even just one person to try again.

For me, playing hurt was a battle in itself: a mind-over-matter head game I refused to lose. Often, I was barely able to bend my knees or elbows, flex my feet, make a fist, bend forward or turn my head. Heck, it hurt to blink.

I've had five surgeries that could have ended most people's careers. But because of the fact that I'm resilient and have a lot of pride, I refused to let myself go out except on my terms. An injury is not going to take me out.

I wanted Puma to regain strength with the existing logo rather than try to get rid of the past.

A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and focus on how to win when it is called on.