Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

I'm quite a strong person, and I've become even stronger.

People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.

Inner strength is very important.

Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson I have been taught in my life; strength, it says, strength, O man, be not weak. Are there no human weaknesses? - says man. There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them, would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness? Strength, O man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

I will get stronger. I will return.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.