Quotes About Strength

It's never too late to reclaim your inner diva and reclaim your inner strength.

There is nothing that you can't overcome. So it's never too late for happiness.

I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

We live and die by Lions Only because not too many people can go through the struggle of life the way my brother and I have and still be on top and make it as far as we are making it right now.

You should never be afraid of looking athletic or building too much muscle.

I have too much to live for to allow a bunch of cowards to take my joy. I refuse to give them my joy.

Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

I used to get hollered at for benching too much.

I don't like feeling too tight. Like if you bench too much, you feel like you can't move your arms right.

I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.

I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.

I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it was scary and chancy - but they discounted me as empty-headed: some little piece of fluff without any brain that happened to come along.

It wasn't until my girlfriend, photographer Jennifer Rovero, took hundreds of pictures of me as I recovered from my amputations that things started to change. The process was a sort of therapy for me, which Jennifer coined as 'photo therapy.' I grew to see the beauty and strength in myself and my journey through the lens of her camera.

I began fighting to stay fit and experience everything equally; hence, I took up kickboxing.

They took my 30s, my 40s, my 50s, but what they couldn't take was my joy. I couldn't do nothing about the years, but I could control my joy... I kept a smile on my face; I kept love in my heart.

I wanted to live further but wanted to do something special. I took it upon myself to remover the tag of being 'helpless'.

When the first armies were formed, combat took courage, which women share equally with men, and strength, which we do not. But though I am only 4 feet 7 inches tall, with a gun in my hand I am the equal of a soldier who's 6 feet 7 - perhaps even at a slight advantage, as I make a smaller target.

My mum was massively important to everything I've done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.

I would have written 'Brown Girl Dreaming' if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside a desk drawer that my own children pulled out one day to find a tool for survival, a symbol of how strong we are and how much we've come through.

However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.