"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."
"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"Patience is the art of hoping."
"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."
"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."
"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."