“At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.”— Cecelia Ahern, amazon.com
“Men want a partner who can laugh at herself and who has courage and strength.”— Rinatta Paries, powertochange.com
“One of the best things men like in women, a quality like no other, a virtue that no woman of today could live without – strength.”— Jelena Jovanovic, love.allwomenstalk.com
“Decisiveness. Attractive is being with a person who’s strong enough to be decisive and can be spontaneous and surprising. No one respects a ‘doormat’, a man who really loves a woman does’t want to walk all over her, he would rather walk beside her or sometimes behind her checking out the competition…”— Dharam Barrett, iheartintelligence.com
“Strength is when you forgive the ones who shattered your heart instead of choosing to destroy them.”— Abirami P. Kurukkal, instagram.com
“What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“Though you might not look or feel strong, when it comes down to it, you will push through.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’re not weak for choosing to walk away, but you’re strong for letting yourself endure so much pain out of detaching yourself from people you love very much.”— Cassie Gacott, thoughtcatalog.com
“I always fucking beat it. I beat it every time I don’t do a ritual. I beat it every time I have a good day. And I beat it every day I don’t take a knife and end myself.”— Colin Carson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am a woman, a daughter, a classmate and a friend. I have a generalized anxiety disorder but I also have enduring resilience and strength.”— Ailish Gannon, thoughtcatalog.com
“As much as I hate all of the things that go on because of my anxiety, I have learned so much about who I am. I am strong. I am capable of overcoming. I am loved. I am confident in those statements because of my anxiety and the toll that it takes on me.”— Kayla Bindus, thoughtcatalog.com
“She probably doesn’t realize it yet, but girls with anxiety are the strongest girls in the world, because they never have a minute of peace. Because they’re always struggling — and they’re always winning.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“She’s strong, because she shows up, even when she’s shaking. She speaks, even when it’s with a cracked voice. She keeps breathing, even when those breaths are shaky.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Leaving isn’t a sign of weakness. It doesn’t mean you’re giving up. Sometimes leaving is the greatest sign of strength you can have.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Pain — physical, emotional, and otherwise — is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there…”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“I decided to show vulnerability and take pride in my words. I learned what it feels like to be a decent human being and what it’s like to love my own company. I’ve learned what it feels like to understand the saying, ‘It takes strength to show vulnerability’ and live by it, and it’s life changing.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Vulnerability is being as you are, wearing only skin, and feeling every sensation from the hair on your head to the tip of your toes. Being vulnerable is not a sign of weakness but a sign of courage.”— Lyla Salubo, thoughtcatalog.com
“True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com