Strength Quotes

"I am the bearer of water. I am the maker of fire."

"A man can take everything from you, but he cannot take your dignity."

"I had no one but myself to rely on."

"I am angry nearly every day of my life."

"I thought of Hassan's final act of defiance."

"There is strength in silence."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."

"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything"

"Women like us. We endure."

"The world breaks everyone. And afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"Survival can twist the mind of an otherwise virtuous person into compromising madness."

"Suffering hardens even as it softens the soul."

"Women are the nations of the world. Without women, there is no world."

"No one can save you but yourself"

"I'm pore, I'm Black, I may be ugly and I'm certainly not going to whitewash to please anybody."

"I got to thinking about it and I've known some hard men. But I ain't never known no man harder than him."

"True strength lies not in violence but in forgiveness."

"The human spirit is unbreakable, even in chains."

"You don't know nothing about me."

"All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles."

"Most people don't have the stomach for it"

"Suffering can break you or it can make you stronger."

"Dignity cannot be taken; it can only be surrendered."

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a thing but I'm here."

"I'm a woman every way a woman can be."

"I may be black, but I am here."

"That what I love about you, Celie, you so strong."

"We endure. It's all we have."

"I learned that suffering is its own form of mathematics."