Dorothea Benton Frank Quotes

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

Every single time I get on the mat, every tournament, I get to see what I'm made of, how tough I am, where my desire is, and how hard I've worked.

I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.

To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.

Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself.

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.

My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.

I took some meetings when I was 11. I think what was interesting about being a young kid in environments like that was people were like, 'You're so sure of yourself! You're so confident!' And I was like, 'I'm 12.' Now I've got to this place where I'm like, 'This is who I am.'

I believe when people can find out who they are, then you can be equipped to handle life's situations.

I turned out to be a tough, smart kid.

I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.

I've always thought of myself as a strong person. However, it's taken me a while to fully find my voice.

Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.

I'm always pushing myself.