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Quotes About Strength

As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.
~ Kate Christensen
One of the toughest things for leaders to master is kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for others' work. It's a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not looking weak.
~ Travis Bradberry
You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.
~ Taya Kyle
I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.
~ Bassem Youssef
I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like no one needed to know because it made me look weak. Who would of thought someone my age, at 23, had a brain aneurysm?
~ Tamala Jones
We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Because I'm a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I'm an idiot, I'm weak.
~ Bikram Choudhury
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
~ Benjamin Robbins Curtis
What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.
~ Mark Ruffalo
Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
~ Ameen Rihani
As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.
~ Amity Gaige
The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends.
~ John C. Calhoun
Israel needs to change direction, and this is not just political. We're becoming more closed-in, more isolated, more scared. Those who talk tough are making the State of Israel very weak, very isolated - very Jewish, in the Diaspora-sense, in that 'everyone is against us.' We need to get out of this.
~ Tzipi Livni
I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak - they've always got steel in them.
~ Olivia Colman
People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
~ Mahesh Babu
Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.
~ Vanity
It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
~ Vernon Howard
I have no ability or interest to play that weak, beaten person.
~ Elizabeth Marvel
Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
~ Taylor Jenkins Reid
I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.
~ Ronnie Corbett
Remember that it's okay to get help, and it doesn't make you weak.
~ Lauren Alaina
I keep getting asked how I write about such smart, strong women, and my response is, what's the alternative? Weak, stupid women? They're just normal people, not role models - if you're aspiring to be like any of them, something's a little bit wrong. You may want to dress like one or have her job, but do not aspire to be her!
~ Shonda Rhimes
When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
A lot of people think pitchers, and they just think throwing and that's where all the power comes from. It's really not. It starts from the ground up. If you have a strong base, the legs will actually do the work and build all the torque and power you need to throw. So if you have weak legs at the end of the year, that's not good.
~ Jason Hammel