Famous Quotes

"Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool."

Esther Williams 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 Esther Williams

• "When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again."

• "I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know."

• "What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."

• "By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light."

• "Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."