Strong Quotes

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Strong people don't need strong leaders.

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

I like very strong guys. Successful guys. Not necessarily financially.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

We are a small nation, but strong.

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.