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“It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.”
— Jillian Michaels, Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body!
Tagged: Perfect, Perfection, Effort, Perseverence, Growth, Fitness, Challenge, strength
“Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!”
— Jillian Michaels, Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body!
Tagged: Perseverence, Fitness, strength, inspiration
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”
— Steve Maraboli, Dr. Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: Past, strength, Destroy
“There seems to be a massive misunderstanding in the world right now about weakness and strength. We've somehow gotten to the point that many think compassion is a sign of weakness, and ruthlessness a sign of strength. It makes me a little bit sick.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of strength. When you have found security in your life and in yourself, the only natural result is to turn that outward and try to help others receive that gift.

Ruthlessness and intentional disregard for others are expressions of fear and insecurity. This desire to appear strong and unaffected...to go on the offense, to win at all costs, to beat your chest and express your power over others...that is only ever weakness.

Morality is not weakness. Caring is not weakness. Compassion is not weakness. Evil is not strength. Intimidation is not strength. Control is not strength.

Hugs are strength. Communication is strength. Collaboration is strength. Diversity is strength. Understanding is strength.

I'm worried for a world that seems to understand these things less every day.”
— Hank Green, via Facebook
Tagged: Compassion, vulnerability, strength, emotions, Sensitivity, Pride, Morality, Important, Social Norms
“She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.”
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant (Divergent Series)
Tagged: Sacrifice, Love, strength
“She may lose the love of another, but it never breaks her, for it is her own self-love that fuels and strengthens her regardless of what man comes or goes.”
— G.L. Lambert, Men Don't Love Women Like You
Tagged: strength, Self Confidence, Dating
“It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king. He had thought that was it. Wasn't king the best you could be?

Now it occurred to him that perhaps Terabithia was like a castle where you came to be knighted. After you stayed for a while and grew strong you had to move on. For hadn't Leslie, even in Terabithia, tried to push back the walls of his mind and make him see beyond to the shining world—huge and terrible and beautiful and very fragile? (Handle with care—everything—even the predators.)

Now it was time for him to move out. She wasn't there, so he must go for both of them. It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

As for the terrors ahead—for he did not fool himself that they were all behind him—well, you just have to stand up to your fear and not let it squeeze you white. Right, Leslie? Right.”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: Death, Terrors, Moving On, Vision, strength
“It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.”
— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Tagged: strength, Vision, beauty, caring
“The best protection any woman can have … is courage.”
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tagged: Courage, Protection, Women, strength, Empowering
“When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’”
— Jada Pinkett, Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes
Tagged: Tired, Women, strength, feminism, Superwoman
“I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.”
— Ellen Degeneres, Lifehack
Tagged: Ellen, Compassion, discrimination, Women, LGBQT, LGBT, feminism, strength
“You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t.”
— Annie Leibovitz, Annie Leibovitz On Getting The Shot--And The Future Of Photography
Tagged: Trust, empowerment, Women, feminism, strength
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Tagged: Honesty, Women, feminism, strength, Courage
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
— Audre Lorde, Friendship Quotes
Tagged: Courage, Words, Speaking Up, Refusing To Stay Silent, Change, Activism, Women, empowerment, feminism, strength
“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.”
— Hillary Clinton, Living History
Tagged: Criticism, Women, strength, feminism, Change
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
— Ayn Rand, Inspiring Quotes From 100 Extraordinary Women
Tagged: Determination, Women, strength, feminism, Courage
“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.”
— Marge Piercy, Marge Piercy Quotes
Tagged: Women, feminism, Determination, strength
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”
— Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure
Tagged: Change, History, Opression, Women, strength, Courage, feminism
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”
— Madeleine Albright, Finding Your Own Voice: Insightful Quotes from Uncommon Women
Tagged: feminism, strength, Women, Courage
“One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.”
— Ruth Reichl, Life’s Work: An Interview with Ruth Reichl
Tagged: Secrets, Learning, Growing Up, strength, Women

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