Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

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.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

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.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting – only woman at the table – and I’d think, ‚OK well, I don’t think I’ll say that. It may sound stupid.‘ And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it’s completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

I’m a can-do girl.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.