Dwayne Johnson Quotes

My strength comes from my mom. Just seeing what she had to go through to raise us, she wouldn't make excuses; she wouldn't put her head down. So I guess I looked at adversity right in the eye and took it on.

Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times.

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

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.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

‘Only what we could carry’ was the rule. So we carried strength, dignity, and soul.

Ultimately, the forces of dictatorship and extremism robbed me of my mother, but she lives on as a symbol of hope, a role model for women across the world. She proved beyond a doubt, with her life and relentless courage, that women can certainly do everything.

I've always found it interesting when I look at a woman, and she's beautiful and everything, but there's an inner strength.

It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever.

I was inspired by my son on the song 'The Most Beautiful People Are Broken.' Life is an extra challenge for him. But he does it all with such great grace and courage.

It will always be relevant and always be inspiring to see somebody turning themselves into a warrior.

She told me, 'I didn't raise no quitter.' That coming from your mom, that's powerful words. That's all I needed to hear. That just drove me. I just took it in and ran with it.

Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.

My mother is a rock. She's my rock, she's Ariana's rock, and she has been a huge example of how to get through some difficult situations with strength, dignity, her head held high.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.