Famous Quotes

"I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea."

Thor Heyerdahl 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 Thor Heyerdahl

• "I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist."

• "Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials."

• "In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds."

• "I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist."

• "For every minute, the future is becoming the past."