Perception of Strength Quotes

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.

Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.

The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful.

Power is founded upon opinion.

People always say, "You played such a strong character." I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in Shame, and she was a suicidal mess. I said, "She's not strong at all; she's incredibly weak." But "strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.

Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.

Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you're not strong. They don't look at you as a strong person, and it's weird 'cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.

If you are good, they say you are weak.