#strength

I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have the right to devalue them . . . ? Maybe it was time to slow down and look at the role restrictions imposed not only on women but the men around them, to search for the balance that could promote self-sufficiency . . . ↗

— Lin Pardey

#women-s-liberation #women-s-strength #womens-rights #men

I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them. ↗

— Nephi

#obedience #scripture #strength #men

Because we are the only women who are mothers of men." Gorgo: when asked by a woman from Attica why Spartan women were the only women in the world who could rule men. ↗

— Gorgos

#men

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. ↗

— John Fowles

#women-s-strength #men

Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible. ↗

— Carter Dickson

#endurance #strength #men

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. ↗

— Confucius

#men

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce. ↗

— Gretel Ehrlich

#strength #art

Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable. ↗

— Kyo Shirodaira

#motivation #stand #strength #motivational

So I'll be bold, as well as strong, and use my head alongside my heart. ↗

— Mumford & Sons

#head #heart #music #strength #music

I can bench press steam, but not fog. I just have to wait until the fog lifts itself.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bench-press #fog #natural #nature #passion