Quotes About Strength

Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.

For people who have been ostracized, who have been all the way at the bottom, there's only one way that we can go - and that's up.

There's only one way to get strong. You work at it.

There's only one way to play this game since I was a little kid - play fast, play physical, play strong.

I'm really fond of strength onstage and I'm not a small person. I'm 5'9'' and 190 lbs. - you can't really go on stage and be too shy.

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

I hold onto the spirit of God for everything, and that works for me. That aspect of my life is very real and is the truth.

Unless you can't take care of yourself or stuff like that, I'm always standin' for you to hold onto life as much as you can.

I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and I felt like it was all just very much married into what I'm listening to, what I'm writing, how I'm feeling.

Having challenges in your life open doors for you.

As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of my history. I'm proud of the women and the men who came before us who are black, and I'm proud of the women before me who are black and who have achieved so much, even though we have so much against us, and we don't have those doors opening for us every day.

True strength lies in openness and working in concert with people and events.

Ballet opens up the chest and the arms and elongates the body, so you carry yourself straighter. That's so important for a model. But also every woman.

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

When I was 10 I had a bone disease called osteomyelitis; they said if they didn't operate, I had 24 hours to live.

Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.

Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.

One of the real core competencies of Blackwater, or companies like Blackwater, is we can operate in difficult places without any outside support.

I was only operating at about 80% of my capacity.

I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.