Quotes About Strength

Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your dust.

Failure gets a bad rap, but I'd like to change that. Failure is necessary. Let it in. Chew it up, and use it as fuel for your soul.

I'm already used to being a target, so I'm building a castle with the stones people throw at me.

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

I've been in pain for so long now I'm just used to it.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

When you grow up on the other side of the tracks, you're used to taking a few bumps.

One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'

But I always had in built strength. I used to do like push ups for three hours. It's building up that core fitness and stamina.

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

I used to sleep on floors and face racial abuse.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.

We used to go to the fairground, and there's that punchable thing that measures your power. It was from one of those that I knew I could punch.

I'm a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn't ask us to sign up to too much of a canon... but I've always found the teachings of Jesus and the Bible quite useful as a sort of handy guide.

Although most of us don't spend time thinking about our thoughts, increasing your awareness of your thinking habits proves useful in building resilience.

Sometimes I use a bungee, one of those bungee cords that offer resistance training. I find that useful. Like, I'll go out and hit a backhand or a forehand with resistance. Because when you get rid of the resistance, you've recruited more muscle fibers, and it definitely helps with speed.

Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.

It took 24 years for me to harness my autistic traits into something useful, and I have grown to regard them as a kind of superpower. Cooking, to me, is akin to algebra, and my mind a pocket calculator.

In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.