Quotes About Strength

You can't even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.

I'm told I'm a statistic. I'm told that my young black sisters are disease-ridden... but we are greater than what society tells us we are.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

I never wanted to model myself on a female singer, which tells you a lot about my character. I didn't have a female role model. There just wasn't anybody around. I played with the boys and beat them at their own game.

My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.

I so wish my dad was alive to see me do a Hindi film after acting in six Telugu movies. I sometimes imagine him giving me feedback on my work. But I derive strength from knowing he is watching over me.

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.

My personality is more like my mother's. She was fiery. She had more of a temper. I always thought she had enough determination that she could do anything. She could fix anything. I think all children need that feeling from their parents.

I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn't be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I'm a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me.

I don't cancel because of temperament. I have had seven major surgeries in my life. I have had tumors. I have had two children with Caesareans; you don't just get up and sing the day after one of those.

People don't drop me with shots on the temple.

Welterweights have what heavyweights have but they also have what flyweights have. We have speed and power. We have what it takes to keep a certain tempo but also deliver the hard shots that the heavyweights have.

Physical pain is temporary.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...

All power is from within and therefore under our control

If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.

In a jungle full of totalitarian monsters liberal democracy needs teeth.

They usually did not fight what is known as a "war of attrition." Rather, they used deception, speed, fluidity of action, and strength against weakness. They used tactics that disoriented and confused—tactics that, in Boyd's words, caused the enemy "to unravel before the fight.

Tigers breed tigers. A candy-assed commander will have few tigers working for him. Each makes the other uncomfortable.

pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.