Let your inner queen’s voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you’ll do her proud.
Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field – it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.
Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The language of the street is always strong.
If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
Only by the supernatural is a man strong – only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist – nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.
England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.