Famous Quotes

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

Anna Freud on Strength

More quotes about Strength

• "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Strength

• "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Strength

• "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

  Helen Keller on Strength

• "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."

  John F. Kennedy on Strength

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

  Ernest Hemingway on Strength

More quotes by Anna Freud

• "Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"

• "We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work."

• "My different personalities leave me in peace now."

• "Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours."