Quotes About Strength

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

My parents are hard nuts. Especially my Dad. He never wanted me to struggle and he always wanted me to fight my own battles. He would never give me the easy option or the easy route.

I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options.

I'm going to give it my all, but I'm also going to know my worth, know that I have options, and that's the best feeling in the world.

I feel choir just has a great sense of power when used with an orchestra, or even by itself.

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron - another guy who did it with his wrists - were through, there were a lot of guys ordering light bats and playing handball.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.

I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

All organizations have great fighters.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with.

I suppose I am a bit of rough. I'm originally from Coolock: I'm rough around the edges.

I'm originally from jiu-jitsu.

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.

There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

My mom literally saved my life. I wasn't supposed to make it out of the orphanage.

Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.