Quotes About Strength

I'm from the hood. You put me in a rough neighborhood and believe me, I'm OK.

My mom gave me enough self-worth to carry me through difficult experiences. She was very loving and accepting. She was like, 'Whelp, you're gay? OK, cool.'

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.

That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

As leaders, we in Israel must take into account the concerns of diaspora Jewry. Israel is strong enough to take criticism from within the family of Jews who say, 'OK, we disapprove of Israeli policy, but we stand firm for Israel.'

We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

I don't give two hoots about nasty comments. I can laugh over them when they are about me but it's not okay to attack my family, my children. I can't take it. My claws will come out.

I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'

It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.

Carrie Bradshaw made it okay for New York women to take fashion chances and show that they are fabulous and strong.

The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen, then they can access their own stuff, feel it's okay, and then have the strength to speak out about things like we're talking about. About rising up.

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

I don't believe in giving in to old age.

You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.

Certainly old men are old, but they keep going strong, don't they?

I was born with chronic asthma, and when I was about five or six years old, one day I had an asthma attack so bad I began to become comatose.

I love the old school wrestling.