I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
My emotions are usually my weakness, but they are my strength while acting.
Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.
I don’t think I’ve ever been as humbled as I have been in Pilates. It’s incredible how much body control and how much isolated strength you have to have to complete these movements successfully.
From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
Through prayers I get the strength to face all the difficulties.
The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Our passion is our strength.
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
Good composition is like a suspension bridge – each line adds strength and takes none away.
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn’t have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.
Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.
The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.
Mourning is tough. But faith and family are the greatest sources of strength.
They say that pace is the first thing to go, but my game was never based on pace. It was about strength and power and withstanding challenges and getting in the right position.
People are realising that vulnerability isn’t a weakness, and the rise of mental health-related humour is making vulnerability feel like a strength.
When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
