Famous Quotes

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."

Leo Rosten 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 Leo Rosten

• "Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them."

• "Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."

• "Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined."

• "Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."

• "Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."