Courage Strength Quotes

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Get the hell out of my way!

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

Courage is not the absence of fear...

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.