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Quotes About Strength

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
~ Angus Wilson
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.
~ Ninette de Valois
Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
~ Alison Bechdel
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.
~ Martin Van Creveld
President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
~ Andrew Young
If you really want to get in shape, you can't have those days where you feel weak.
~ Josh Hopkins
Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.
~ Sloane Crosley
Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.
~ Sharon Salzberg
I know a lot of people who are weak, who are in a perpetual cycle of poverty and being locked up. There are guys from my neighborhood who are in jail or who are dead. It does take a certain strength to know your environment and say, 'I can grow beyond it.'
~ Mekhi Phifer
A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
~ Natalie Portman
Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.
~ Randeep Hooda
I have bad feet and I have weak ankles.
~ Katherine Heigl
In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong.
~ Lea Seydoux
People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?
~ Kirk Douglas
Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.
~ Rob Bell
There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.
~ Julian Fellowes
I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
~ P. C. Cast
Lebanon is a small country, weak, an army with very humble capabilities.
~ Hassan Nasrallah
Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics.
~ Monica Crowley
You always want to make sure that you're not the weak link. You're surrounded by really talented, great actors and singers, so just staying on your game is the main thing.
~ Drew Seeley
My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.
~ Lucy Griffiths
I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'
~ Kate Bush