#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

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#actually #also #always #embracing #feel

There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#character #could #dynamic #even #ever

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#about #being #could #deep #express

Women are never so strong as after their defeat. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#empowerment #perseverance #strength #women #perseverance

Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won't grow beyond your current self. ↗

— Robert Tew

#happiness #life-quote #life-quotes #strength #life

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. ↗

— Vince Lombardi Jr.

#perseverance #success #strength

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#worry #strength

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#woman #strength