Quotes About Strength

When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.

When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala - or 'Trouble Woman.' It means 'I give you hell.' But I don't care what names they call me. I'm a fighter; I'm very focused on what I'm doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked.

My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.

If you don't have your gameplan right, as a big man against a little man, you are in trouble.

The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother.

My will power has always been very strong. If I want something, I'll get it. I've had no trouble keeping my head on my shoulders, nor do I have any chips on there.

He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don't have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

I had a troubled childhood, a troubled adulthood but now I am totally healed. I am lucky that there are people around me to support.

I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don't hesitate to change, but don't change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything.

It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together.

You know, I've been hit with a Greb boot in the face and I've been spat on. And my kids light up when they hear these stories. It really takes their minds off their troubles.