See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I never fall in love.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

Before all else, be armed.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.