Famous Quotes

"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "All diseases run into one, old age."

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

• "Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."

• "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."

• "Every artist was first an amateur."