F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

I think the inner strength that I have helps me stay calm.

When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

...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.

Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. To look up to the sky for the nutriment of our bodies, is the condition of nature; to call upon the sun for peace and gaiety, or deprecate the clouds lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness, and the idolatry of folly.

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.

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

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

I've always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.

I've been strong my whole entire life.

Confidence is not, 'They will like me'. Confidence instead is, 'I'll be fine if they don't'.

I'm not a person who lives for sympathy.

I've taken great pride in not being fragile.