Quotes About Strength

Both 'Saturday Church' and 'Pose' are incredible because they demonstrate something essential about survival. When you get pushed hard enough by certain circumstances, your survival mechanism kicks in, and you grow into the things that you need or are missing in your life.

Survival is not just a physical thing. It's a constant mental affair. So, I kind of really draw a lot of power from that word.

The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.

When I make a film about a physically challenged person, I come away with so much. I learn to value what I have. My survival instinct sharpened after 'Black' and 'Guzaarish.'

I've always believed in survival.

I'm loyal to a fault - even though I've been to hell and back with Vince McMahon, I would never to do anything to hurt him. But it's also survival of the fittest out there.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

Having a strong sense of self is fundamental to you, no matter what you're doing. I don't care if you're a stay at home mom raising kids or if you're the CEO of a corporation. It's really important for your survival.

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

There are a lot of comedians that were bullied and picked on, and that's why they became comedians. Survival of the fittest.

In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a healthy breath. Still, to say that life wasn't fair for this awkwardly glib, yet deeply religious woman, would fail to take into account her towering instinct for survival.

I fought for my survival since infancy.

I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival.

I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

I think any black woman is a queen. It's just, do you know it? Do you see it in yourself? Do you recognize it, do you abide by that, do you define yourself as that? Based on who we are and what we've been through and how we survive and where we stand, we are on kind of sacred ground. We stand on the backs of our ancestors.

I can survive in the jungle, so now I can do anything.

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

We all survive more than we think we can.

I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

It's the way of life in Saginaw. If you're not tough, you don't survive.

We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.