Famous Quotes

"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."

Charles Dickens 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 Charles Dickens

• "The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons."

• "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

• "A boy's story is the best that is ever told."

• "There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

• "Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."