Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.
— Martha McSally
In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
— Marlo Thomas
You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.
— Mark Pincus
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.
— Mark McKinnon
There's a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it's all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.
— Mark Henry
Antonio Cesaro is beyond naturally strong. He trains hard, but he's got that strength you don't expect him to have.
Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one's heart? The compassionate drive to help others, even at great risk? That's strength.
— Marjorie Liu
The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
— Marianne Williamson
You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'
— Mariah Carey
My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
— Maria Semple
Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.
— Margaret Keane
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
— Marcus Aurelius
Cristiano's strength always gives the team a boost in every way.
— Manuel Pellegrini
It's no secret that I've worked with celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Kate Beckinsale and Helen Hunt. These women have more than just incredible physiques - they have an inner strength, grace ,and comfort in their own skin, no matter what life serves up.
— Mandy Ingber
One of the biggest things that I took from playing Kunta Kinte was where his strength came from in knowing where he was from.
— Malachi Kirby
I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.
— Mahesh Babu
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I try to keep it in a very low impact - I have scoliosis, so exercises can be really hard on my back, whether it's too much running, jumping or boxing. I'll do those things once in a while, but I keep it mostly Pilates, resistance-band based, softer exercises that build strength from inside the muscle.
— Martha Hunt
There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.
— Mark Shields
I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.
— Mark-Paul Gosselaar
The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.
— Mark McGwire
I didn't know my own strength. I wasn't a bully or anything, but I'd be out playing and end up hurting someone. So I had to sit out or play with older kids.
I can't tell you what the Army end strength will be. I know it has to be above 500,000. I know it has to be above 500,000 in the regular Army - and I've always said associated growth in the Guard and Reserve.
— Mark Esper
You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life that has just arrived. It's a big cliche how your priorities change, but every parent knows that sometimes there's a thunderstorm, and you look at his eyes, and everything is all right. It is a revolution of everything you feel.
— Marion Cotillard
My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.
— Marianne Faithfull
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
— Maria Weston Chapman
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
— Marge Piercy
Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.
— Marcus Buckingham
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
— Mandy Patinkin
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I come from. I understand that my last name is Kirby, that I was born in London, third-generation Jamaican, and at some point along the line, that name was changed. I didn't know my history past my grandparents.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
— Marquis de Sade
The strength of your company is how wide a variety of people can be successful in it.
I ran over 10 years without missing a day, averaging close to 15 miles. I loved being able to run a long distance and get that feeling of strength and exhilaration from being in good shape. There was a meditative quality about it. Almost effortlessness. That's a special feeling.
— Mark Parker
They say that pace is the first thing to go, but my game was never based on pace. It was about strength and power and withstanding challenges and getting in the right position.
— Mark Hughes
The true measure of strength is through a squat and deadlift.
The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.
— Mark E. Smith
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
— Marilyn Monroe
It's a tremendous asset if you have a visual eye because you can make huge visual statements in a very theatrical way and play to the strength of theatre. But the high end of directing is working with actors and making the acting the best it can be.
— Marianne Elliott
I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
— Maria Sharapova
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
— Marcel Proust
Yoga is equal parts strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance.
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
— Malala Yousafzai
We as men, need to give the Indian women all the strength that she needs, rightfully asking to be able to walk with head held high.
— Mahesh Bhatt
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
