Quotes About Strength

I wanted my kids to be able to look at their mom and be like, 'She can take care of herself.'

You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others.

The little things I used to take for granted before I don't take for granted anymore. This whole situation has evolved me into a better person. Mentally, I'm much stronger, I'm more loving. I'm a man now. Cancer has played a huge role into making me into this person.

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.

Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.

The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.

I have taken pride in my pain, knowing full well that I am stronger than those who have none and despite the many injustices that still exist in our world, the racial disparities that continue and the bigotry that pervades I still remain hopeful about the future.

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

I've taken my beatings and learned how to get around and succeed against the big guys.

I do like playing smart women who can be sexy and are taken seriously.

Any experience you go through, you take something away from it, and I've always taken more from the harder times.

I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

So once you hit like that place, where everything is stripped from you, everything is taken from you, you really discover who you really are. I discovered that I'm a real hero, that I can deal with that situation, that I can rise up to the challenge.

No one's taken anything from me.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they're sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.

It takes a certain level of maturity to get hit and get knocked down and get back up.

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.