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Quotes About Strength

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.
~ Judy Grahn
The one who rules like the mother lasts long.
~ Laozi
I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.
~ Lights
The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.
~ Liya Kebede
My father has been the real anchor of the family. Hes the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
~ Yvette Clarke
Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
~ Shirley Manson
When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.
~ Lil' Mama
Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
My mother raised me, and then freed me.
~ Maya Angelou
My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.
~ Tyler Perry
To mothers who are raising their children without a father in the home, I promise you that as you speak of Jesus Christ, you will feel the power of heaven blessing you.
~ Neil L. Andersen
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
~ Patti Smith
My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.
~ Paula Coughlin
My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.
~ Pedro Almodovar
You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you're prepared to defend yourself.
~ Veronica Roth
Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.
~ Phil Donahue
My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.
~ Poppy Delevingne
I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.
~ Whitney Houston
I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.
~ Robert Reich
Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.
~ Rudyard Kipling
She was a genius, my mother.
~ Sally Kirkland
My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
~ Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
~ Maria Montessori
I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
~ Mandy Patinkin