Quotes tagged ‘strength’

(919 total)

“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.”

“You've been down before. You've been hurt before. You got up before.”

“There will be days when you're forced to make decisions that affect the lives of everyone you love, choices that will change you forever. You reach an age where you realize that being a man isn't about respect or strength, it's about being aware of all the things you touch. Children face inward, wal…”

— Chris Collins, Kurt Sutter, Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam, imdb.com

“You're so much stronger than all of the white noise. You're stronger than your mother. You're stronger than your father. You're holding this family together. So don't... don't let go.”

— James DeWille, Jughead Jones, Cole Sprouse, imdb.com

“It is no paradox to say that although comparatively weak the new-born nation was intrinsically strong.”

— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com

“I got this at a very hopeless time in my life. Someone very special gave it to me back in Vietnam. It’s a Buddhist symbol of purpose. I was feeling very lost when I got that. But I put it on and I moved forward. And you know when I was wearing it? The day you were born. The moment you came out, my n…”

— Jas Waters, K.J. Steinberg, Jack Pearson, Milo Ventimiglia, imdb.com

“Life feels like Pac-Man sometimes, I guess. It’s the same game over and over again. Same board. Same ghosts. Sometimes, you get a bunch of cherries but eventually and inevitably, those ghosts catch up with you.”

— Shukree Tilghman, Jas Waters, Randall Pearson, Sterling K. Brown, imdb.com

“I know that the Union is stronger a thousand times than all the wild and chimerical schemes of social change which are generated one after another in the unstable minds of visionary sophists and interested agitators.”

— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com

“Strength is a woman with her hand on the mouth / of behemoth, voice pushed out like birds in all directions.”

— Joey de Jesus, blunderbussmag.com

“The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution. I shall never doubt it.”

— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com

“You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.”

— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com

“It's alright to be Goliath, but always act like David.”

— Phil Knight, inc.com

“The strength you need, the answer you want, the solution you seek is around you. Turn to the infinite power within yourself.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“It's okay son... I know you want this to be over. I'm right here. I will be right here... But you don't give up. You hear me?”

— Hugh Glass, imdb.com

“Sometimes, caring about other people’s criticisms of us means that on some level, we agree with them. So grow – in every way you aspire to – because you do have someone to prove wrong, and that someone is you.”

— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com

“Your leaving taught me that I was stronger than I could have ever anticipated. Your leaving taught me that I could be an independent woman, without needing anybody else. Your leaving taught me that love isn’t everything.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com

“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a rac…”

— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org