Famous Quotes

"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

Jean de La Fontaine 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 Jean de La Fontaine

• "By the work one knows the workman."

• "It is impossible to please all the world and one's father."

• "Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go."

• "Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them."

• "Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."