Quotes About Strength

When you never see yourself in the mainstream format, you are stripped of the strength of your identity.

As a song-writer I have always written with one instrument - either guitar or piano - because I believe that if a song is strong enough to be performed completely stripped down then it is a good one to go on and record.

I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.

I've found childbirth to be so unique in its ability to completely humble you while also completely empowering you. It reduces you to your essence and strips you of every pretense. It reminds you that you are no better than all the women who have come before you, but also no worse.

The world has been broken into millions of pieces, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

I love this country, but I feel like we're losing sight of who actually holds the power and what makes us great: it's the people, the communities, the small places that are forgotten, everyone that's striving.

Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is so important.

I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.

I've never once heard my mom complain about her stroke.

You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

It's sexy and beautiful to be strong.

When the nation can act freely, then China may be called strong. To make the nation free, we must each sacrifice his freedom.

Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.