Strong Minded Quotes

I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I’m out of my sphere now, for woman’s special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

The emerging woman … will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied…strength and beauty must go together.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

[Music] business can drive you to do that if you don’t have it here. If you’re not strong-minded here, it could steer you the wrong way and when it steers you the wrong way, then it might take forever to get back.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

Be strong minded, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

I’ve always been very strong minded on character-based fights and character-based action. If you take the character out of the action and you just shoot it as an action sequence, the audience starts to lose connection.

I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person – mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.

I’ve always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I guess I’ve always been really strong minded about what I wear; I’ve never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations. And it’s true that our geography has shaped our psychology. We have the character of an island nation – independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty.

No one has ever asked an actor, ‘You’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

Mind over matter. Weak minded people are easily influenced. Strong minded people you can’t break their will.

‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.

the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don’t.

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it’s maybe because I’m like that. I love being by myself.

I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they’re ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.