Quotes About Strength

I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I'm thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we're also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

I better know how to take care of myself.

I want to feel like I can take care of myself.

The biggest message I want to get out is that a lot of us live in a bubble, and we think things can't happen to us, but they do. When it does happen to you, take care of yourself, and then get up.

My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others.

I've aged well because I've had to take care of myself.

I think exercise is so important. Yes, as women we are multi-taskers, but we have to take care of our bodies.

I haven't had many injuries, and I know that's because I take care of my body, and I do the things that I need to do to keep it strong.

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.

I want a guy who can take care of me. He should be rock solid and someone I can depend on.

I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

I've learnt to take care of myself.

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

When I think of myself at 15, even 17, I could simply not have done this work on an international level and travel all the time, take care of myself and not feel lost. I feel very happy that this is happening now, and not 10 years ago, as I feel stronger as a person.

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

America is strongest when families take care of each other and walk with one another through need and loss.

I've had a number of injuries; I've had a number of surgeries, and I've been able to bounce back from them. I attribute that to Him as much as me just trying to take care of myself as much as I can.

I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

I just want a guy that is secure with himself and is not intimidated by what I do and how I can provide for myself, because I don't need a man for that, nor have I ever looked for a man to just take care of me.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing, you know? My wife is very smart. She's got a doctorate degree; she's got her own career going. She doesn't need me to take care of her.