Brenda Strong Quotes

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

I'm a very strong woman.

Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

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

It's a tough world out there, and women can't afford to be weenies.

I realize that this is not what you want to put on a cover with Wonder Woman emblazoned on it. She could be in trouble, but she doesn't need to be completely out of control. So whenever I'm doing these covers, I try to make sure that there's an element where, even if there is danger, it's not something where agency is taken away from her.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

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

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

I'm a big boy, and I'm a tough guy.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

You've got to have steel in you somewhere.

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

I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.