Rain Dove Quotes

Sure, they can take your binder, but they can't take whatever special thing you have inside you.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

My mama told me it's not what they call you - it's what you answer to.

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

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

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

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.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

I always thought I'm kind of a tough girl.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

I don't think of myself as a powerful person.

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

Everybody is going to have an opinion on you; not everyone is going to like you. You can't live your life based on other people's opinions of you or let that change what you do or how you feel about yourself, because then you're not living.

The most demeaning sin is to remain weak in the world. It not only destroys us, but also incites others to attack us with violence.