Quotes About Strength

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

You know, once you've stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

I think of Harriet Muse as one fierce lady. She couldn't read. She had no education. She did labor her whole life. And she stood up to Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey at a time where she was told where to work, where to sit, and she demanded that they pay attention to her.

Growing up with my brothers all boxing has stood me in good stead for nights like these. You should have seen some the fights we used to have in our front room.

Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it - and by the strong principles he stood for.

I like George W. At a time when this country was hit hard, he stood up for America. He's been the leader of the free world during the hardest time America's ever had.

eSpeed took the worst that the world could dish out, and it still stood and performed.

I haven't been afraid to speak my mind with anything, and I have always stood up for what I believe in.

I have stood on the shoulders of giants like Billie Jean King, Hillary Clinton, my mother - people who have really empowered and influenced my life in an incredible way.

I have stood on my own feet.

I've always been alone, done things by myself and stood stronger than the others.

We all had to dodge the idea we were spokespeople for our races. Like, 'Hey, it's the Mexican Guy! The Filipino! The Chick!' We've always stood up to it and said, 'Fine, bring it on and we'll show you how we rock.'

We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.

Despite being through 100 hurdles, I have stood up for myself.

After I was elected as an MP, there were many who used to criticize me, but I still stood. This I have learnt from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is used to being criticized severally from his days in Gujarat.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

Black history won't stop no bullets.

I'm trying to go out there having the mentality that I'm the best out there and nobody can stop me.

I never stopped myself from doing difficult roles.

If someone is going to say something nasty to me about my body, that means my body is powerful. If you really stopped your day because you needed to say something to me, that's power.

I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through.

I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.