Quotes About Strength

You can be a successful woman and also be vulnerable, and that's important to show people.

We should be able to carry on our careers and be women and mothers without fearing that if we show a vulnerable side, that will be attacked.

If you're really gonna live, you have to be vulnerable.

I just want to play really strong characters that get to do really interesting things. But I would also love to play someone really vulnerable. When I first started my career, I tended to do a lot of things just to get the work.

As a stunt woman, I took it upon myself to be a bit of a jock about it. So you wouldn't see me vulnerable, you wouldn't see me hurting or sad because I was there as a professional to do my job. Nobody likes to see a girl get hurt - that's the truth of it - so I had to put them at ease so they would let me do my job.

If you torture a man as I was tortured he will learn more about love than you could ever ­imagine, and that has left me ­vulnerable.

The key to acting well is to allow yourself to be vulnerable.

I wish my dad or somebody had taught me how to fight and defend myself. Because you're very vulnerable if you can't stick up for yourself.

We're still trying to figure out how to let men be vulnerable, to realize there's strength in vulnerability, and that it's how you fill out the circle of masculinity.

It's not easy for everyone to expose themselves and be vulnerable.

For India's sake as much as its own, Bihar needs to be strong again, less vulnerable to the many forces that would deny democracy and curtail choice. Its people are its strength, and have many skills that other states have benefited from.

I've certainly had some difficult days. But it's OK to be vulnerable.

I want to know when my friends need help, as well as when they're happy; when they're vulnerable, as well as when they feel strong.

I think the trauma of giving birth made me feel vulnerable and I wasn't invincible. Giving birth made me feel like I could die at any minute.

I would say that's at the center of masculinity in the 21st century: How do you become comfortable enough that you can feel stronger by opening up to another human being, rather than the instinct, which is, the more closed off you are, the stronger you are because you're not vulnerable?

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade don't just beat you, they snatch your heart.

You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.

Banding together and leveraging collective strength is an important part of the American story, and to fight for a livable wage, for adequate safety measures, and for better benefits and conditions on the job, workers have to be able to organize.

Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

Dad didn't earn a big wage but even if he was really ill he'd go to work.

I'm like a race horse attached to a freight wagon.

I am quite a physical chap - I think that's why my waist and physique are pretty much the same as when I was a kid, although my chest is a lot bigger.

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.