Famous Quotes

"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse."

Oliver Goldsmith 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 Oliver Goldsmith

• "A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."

• "Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

• "Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

• "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."

• "A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."