#strength

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

#connected #intellectual #mind #powers #skin

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it. ↗

— Shirley Abbott

#scotch-irish #strength #intelligence

I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength. ↗

— Jonathan Brown

#doing #first #good #i #injury

The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I'm ever going to tell. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#inspiration-through-art #strength #art

As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values. ↗

— Jim Doyle

#dedicated #everyday #go #good #greatest

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#allowed #any #binds #broken #chains

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared. ↗

— Guy Finley

#degree #feared #strength #us #weakness

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#beat #breaks #consists #head #knowledge

Never let kindness be your weakness, never let your weaknesses be your downfal ↗

— V. Pain

#healing #hear-me-roar #inspiration #strength #vpain

Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #motivational #purpose #strengths