Katherine Dunham Quotes

As long as I feel that inner strength, I'll be all right.

I just want people to know I'm mentally strong.

Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

You really have to look inside yourself to find your inner strength.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.

I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

It's really amazing when you discover how strong you actually are and what you really can accomplish.

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

I was strong inside my head.

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.

You have to stay strong when it gets tough.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

I'm not afraid of scars, be them emotional or otherwise. I think it builds character, and if it doesn't destroy you, I truly believe it makes us stronger.