Quotes About Strength

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.

With China and North Korea, you never know who you'll fight. The faces are always changing, and suddenly young opponents come up. It's all about winning at the Olympics, not about winning pretty. I'll just keep trying to improve, add more muscle power, and make sure I'm the last one standing.

I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

I don't mind standing up for what I believe in.

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

You could say that by standing up to Russia, the U.S. is finally getting some balls.

Women standing up for each other is critically important.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

Injuries aren't anything foreign to me. I am used to overcoming illness and injury; you can't complain about it. When you're standing up there on the blocks, it doesn't really matter: it's all about the next minute.

I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power.

I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

Standing up for yourself. That's the thing martial artists aren't used to. You've got to really stick up for yourself and be a tough businessman when it's time for negotiations.

I had the bottom rib broken and pushed in and it took an inch or two off. It really hurt when I lay down but if I was standing up or sitting it was OK. It wasn't horrifying.

What we have to do is we have to make sure that our country is as strong as it can be economically and from a defense standpoint.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

I like what L'Oreal stands for, which is women of worth.

It doesn't matter who stands in front of me, I've got to find a way to go out there and win.

I love how our industry always stands united.