“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”— Oprah Winfrey, passiton.com
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”— Edwin Markham, pinterest.com
“Whatever is calculated to weaken or impair the strength of Union, whether originating at the North or the South, whether arising from the incendiary violence of abolitionists, or from the coalition of nullifiers, will never meet with my unqualified approval.”— Sam Houston, amazon.co.uk
“I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.”— Jim Brown, successories.com
“Women don't wanna see need. They want a take-charge guy—a colonel, a kaiser, a tsar.”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“There was an Offred before me. She helped me find my way out. She's dead. She's alive. She is me.”— Margaret Atwood, Offred, Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
“If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protection and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence.”— John Tyler, presidential-power.org
“I’m a survivor. I‘m strong because I’ve been weak. I have sharp edges because I’ve been broken.”— Mia Asher, amazon.com
“There are people who have hurt you and led to your downfall and if you can forgive them, you are not weak. You are really strong.”— Muskan Agrawal, instagram.com
“Doesn’t matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home. It changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up but maybe that’s the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap, maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to g…”— Alex Karev, imdb.com
“When I hear news of a hitchhiker struck by lightning yet living, or a child lifting a two-ton sedan to free his father pinned underneath, or a camper fighting off a grizzly with her bare hands until someone, a hunter perhaps, can shoot it dead, my thoughts turn to black people— the hysterical streng…”— Nicole Sealey, narrativemagazine.com
“When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had absorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.”— Dwight Schrute, imdb.com
“God’s time is always near. He set the North Star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free.”— Harriet Tubman, harriet-tubman.org
“..and I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.”— Harriet Tubman, harriet-tubman.org
“True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“I'll get by As long as I have you Though there be rain And darkness too I'll not complain I'll see it through”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“Nobody is strong and nobody is weak if he conceives of the body, from the head to the sole of the foot, as a unity in which a living mind circulates everywhere equally.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“I have decided to make a home in my own body. I no longer rent hearts for comfort.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com