Quotes About Strength

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.

Trying to drown me woman?" 'You can't drown a SEAL,' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be?' 'God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don't let me die in the water. They'd send me to hell on principle.

Anger will give you strength, where fear will make you weak.