Frederick Douglass Quotes

Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.

I thought I was weak and couldn't be on my own. But actually, I can do it; I just need to be a bit braver.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

I do feel like I have set out a path of my life to never again be too small or too weak to protect the people I love.

Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Strength and independence are always something that I'm drawn to in all my characters, no matter how different they are from one another.

Alone I'm nothing.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong.

If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.