“It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it.”— Yvonne N. Pierre, amazon.com
“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind.…”— Suzy Kassem, amazon.com
“Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.”— Michel de Montaigne, amazon.com
“Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.”— Gene Wolfe, amazon.com
“Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.”— Thea Harrison, amazon.com
“Honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.”— Richelle Mead, amazon.com
“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”— Max Lucado, amazon.com
“ho wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”— Chris Bradford, amazon.com
“Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”— Taylor Swift, goodreads.com
“I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind.”— Tana French, amazon.com
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”— Andrew Solomon, amazon.com
“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”— Judith Viorst, amazon.com
“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”— Emilie Autumn, amazon.com