Quotes About Being Strong

#1. It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

Lena Dunham

#2. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.

Mary Beth Chapman

#3. The cost of freedom is being strong enough to find the implement your own desires.

Steven Redhead

#4. Being strong is not how hard you hit but its as hard you can get hit and keep going that is how winning is done.

Rocky

#5. Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock.

Chris Sharma

#6. You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

Richard Rohr

#7. How much the pain grew inside him after Ossie died until the only way to deal with it was to throw himself into the fray. And the whole time, Vanessa's body was wrapped around him like she was the only one being strong as a shield while he stripped his life bare.

Melissa Cutler

#8. Of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone.

Rumi

#10. Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.

Theodor Mommsen

#11. It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.

Miuccia Prada

#12. Oh, if somewhere there were a being strong and handsome, a valiant heart, passionate and sensitive at once, a poet's spirit in an angel's form, a lyre with strings of steel, sounding sweet-sad epithalamiums to the heavens, then why should she not find that being?

Gustave Flaubert

#13. The sun is shining - the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flower are growing - the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic - being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me - the Magic is in me. It is in me - it is in me. In every one of us.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#14. You're not really moving on when you jump from someone who broke your heart to a new replacement. Moving on is self reflection and being strong enough to stand on your own.

Auliq Ice

#15. The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.

Matt Mickiewicz

#16. Submission doesn't mean weakness; it means exploring your wants and desires and being strong enough to give control of yourself to someone else.

Melinda Barron

#17. Being strong doesn't mean that you never break! Being strong means that even if you break into a million pieces, you still have the courage to pick those pieces up, put them back together, and keep going on.

Manprit Kaur

#18. Always being strong is not the same as living.

Erik Axl Sund

#19. Being strong was hard work, and I was ready to let someone else be strong for a little bit. Not forever, but for a little while.

J.C. Isabella

#20. We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

Jane Powell

#21. Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.

Sanaa Lathan

#22. He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

Laozi

#23. I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

Salma Hayek

#24. Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

Paul Keating

#25. I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

Kristen Bell

#26. She was so tired of being strong.

Kristin Hannah

#27. Being strong is important. But knowing who you can count on is equally important

Niki Burnham

#28. Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Brenda Strong

#29. You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.
Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur

#30. Always, it was claimed of her, she was strong and she was capable. You are not loved for being strong and capable if you are a female but if you are a female and you are strong and capable you will make your way without love.

Joyce Carol Oates

#31. The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.

Marilyn Manson

#32. Being strong, showing that you will see things through no matter what comes your way, that's what matters most to me.

Cat Zingano

#33. Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.

Confucius

#34. The worst thing about being strong is no one recognizes the beauty in strength or the love behind it.

Catherine Fraser

#35. Both my mom and my grandma were really big influences on me not only by being strong and teaching me to be strong but also owning their salt as well.

Miranda Lambert

#36. Always think twice before you decide to do anything for a film. It may seem like a career-changing idea, but think of your family and your future before doing anything risky. Train properly, because looking strong and being strong are two different things.

Akshay Kumar

#37. Sometimes you have to choose between being strong and being honest, if you want real answers.

Jessiqua Wittman

#38. My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

Miranda Lambert

#39. There's no question how strong you are." Gabe rested his fingers on her shoulders and pressed into the tight muscles. She didn't push him away. "But being strong doesn't mean you have to be alone.

Kishan Paul

#40. If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

T.D. Jakes

#41. Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.

Paul Graham

#42. Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women. As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.

Zainab Salbi

#43. You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

Henry A. Kissinger

#44. A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired.

Wes Craven

#45. Being strong doesn't mean you can't be soft. Working hard to meet your goals doesn't mean you can't live. And living a certain way your entire life doesn't mean you can't ever change. Life is fluid. The only way to run yourself ashore is to not follow the change and contour of the curves.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#46. I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

Maggie Q

#47. Here's what I believe is sexy at work: being strong and committed and confident, being precisely who you are and in hot pursuit of the goals and ideas you believe in so much they captivate and inspire others.

Charlotte Beers

#48. You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

Hilary Mantel

#49. The worst part about being strong is that no one ever asks if you're okay.

Anonymous

#50. You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have.

Kristen Proby

#51. Being weak is a choice, so is being strong.

Frank Zane

#52. You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

Ashley Walters

#53. Our duty as Latter-day Saints is to prepare ourselves, this earth, and its inhabitants for the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Being prepared and being strong as the gospel teaches ensure happiness here and hereafter and make this 'grand millennial mission' possible.

Keith B. McMullin

#54. If you're a real frogman," he said, "then every time a woman leaves your side, she'll feel better about herself." ... The message felt similar to what Earl had taught: being strong meant being able to do good, to lift up and protect those whose lives you touched.

Eric Greitens

#55. There aren't any real strong people anywhere. Only people who can put on a good show of being strong.

Haruki Murakami

#56. Sometimes in love it just gets to the point where I have to give up. I have to give up trying and I have to give up believing because I know things won't change. To me, giving up isn't being weak. Giving up is being strong enough to let go.

Taylor Swift

#57. It was easier being strong when another man was strong enough to be weak.

Aleksandr Voinov

#58. Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being. Strong doesn't mean big arms. It means who can be a more strict human being with himself. That is the ideal of martial arts.

Tsutomu Ohshima

#59. I was being strong. Even though I felt weak.

Amanda Howells

#60. Life itself is a frightening image for every human being.... being strong in life isn't easy.

Inuyasha

#61. A big part of being strong financially is that you know where you are weak and take action to make sure you don't fall prey to the weakness. And we ALL are weak

Dave Ramsey

#62. Sometimes being strong means being able to forgive.

Me

#63. Being strong is having the wisdom when it is necessary. Being strong is to being gentle when it is most needed. Being strong is using flexibility when it is required. Being strong is about being there when it is a must for you to be there. Being strong is not really about being strong ... ... ...

Sameh Elsayed

#64. Among our people, theres not any question about women being strong
even stronger than men
they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you dont have these questions about yourself like middle
class women do.

Dolores Huerta

#65. We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If we are always being strong and without needs, we are not growing, and we are setting ourselves up for a very dangerous fall.

Henry Cloud

#66. In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me I can be. That means
taking charge of our lives, being strong even if I don't feel it,being brave and believing that I can make things better.

Charlotte Pearson

#67. The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

Suzanne Collins

#68. I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

Natalie Imbruglia

#69. But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

Tami Hoag

#70. I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I've started painting more. I've been working out a lot. I've started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I've never been closer to that.

Taylor Swift

#71. I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all ... a day ... an hour.

George R R Martin

#72. The meaning of bravery is more than the act of being strong, it is also about letting go of what you cannot control and trusting the unknown.

Steven Cuoco

#73. Love is skewed. Love is being strong when he is weak. Love is obsessive and offensive and not any good, but he's mine.

Mary Elizabeth

#74. There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.

Kristin Hannah

#75. When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.

Daniel Kahneman

#76. The worst thing about being unhappy is not being strong enough to leave the situation.

Ron Baratono

#77. If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.

Joel Parkinson

#78. To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.

Bill Jensen

#79. I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

Alison Lohman

#80. My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.

Chiaki Kuriyama

#81. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic - being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me - the Magic is in me.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#82. Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.

Elsa Schiaparelli

#83. Being strong and positive is like holding your breath under water. You will never be able to do it forever. Sometimes crying out and express yourself will help you from drowning.

Vivek Thangaswamy

#84. As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and sinews, from the vestiges of ancient struggles, from the need to live and the joy of being strong.

Emile Zola

#85. They appear in the doorway, holding tea and toast, their faces filled with concern. I open my mouth, planning to start off with some kind of joke, and burst into tears. So much for being strong.

Suzanne Collins

#86. Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Henry Ward Beecher

#87. I believe being strong means I can kiss you and still fight my enemies and succeed. I can show emotion and be complicated and hope for love and family and friends in a world that is telling me I can die tomorrow.

Alicia D'Aversa

#88. I have based my life on being strong enough to do anything.

Montel Williams

#89. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles

Audrey Hepburn

#90. Their strength was being strong enough to live no matter what happened to them. Instead of seeing their strengths, they saw what made them weak. They let their abusers win.

April Thompson

#91. When I was younger, I enjoyed being strong, and I loved it when my heart was very strong, but I think it was also about submitting to the cultural idea that if you're a 22-year-old woman, you have to look a certain way. I'm not into that anymore. But I do appreciate it when my clothes fit.

Jennifer Beals

#92. Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on - she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better - in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold.

Larry McMurtry

#93. Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer.

Nur Muhammad Taraki

#94. It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

Cecily Strong

#95. Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.

Yasmin Mogahed

#96. Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Jasmine Guy

#97. When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

Ronald Reagan

#98. I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.

Heidi Klum

#99. This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

Robert W. Service

#100. I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.

Susanne Bier