Strength Quotes

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

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

"There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

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

"Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life."

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

"One man with courage is a majority."

"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."

"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."

"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."

"From caring comes courage."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"

"Courage is a kind of salvation."

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."

"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."

"One man with courage makes a majority."

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

"I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself."

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."

"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage."

"A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die."

"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."

"Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top."

"It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless."

"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."

"Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."

"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow."

"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."

"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."

"The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge."

"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."

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

"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."

"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."

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

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten."

"A man of courage is also full of faith."

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."

"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."

"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."

"The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility."

"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."

"Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all."

"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength."

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."

"My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people."

"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people."

"True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is."

"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."

"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference."

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

"My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation."

"Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think."

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."

"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled."

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."

"Life is to be entered upon with courage."

"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it."

"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage."

"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace."

"A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace."

"We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity."

"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

"There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King."

"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."

"Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."

"Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people."

"If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween."

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."

"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."

"Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring."

"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."

"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."

"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."

"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."

"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."

"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."

"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."

"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life."

"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed."

"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide."

"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."

"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."

"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."

"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."

"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway."

"Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality."

"Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring."

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance."

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."

"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."

"Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again."

"Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships."

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause."

"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."

"Genius is talent set on fire by courage."

"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."

"Despair gives courage to a coward."

"Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way."

"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."

"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."

"Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."

"Political courage is not political suicide."

"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."

"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard."

"The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage."

"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior."

"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."

"I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster."

"The more wit the less courage."

"I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through."

"Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead."

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this."

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

"I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected."

"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."

"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage."

"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."

"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them."

"Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."

"Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character."

"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."

"Creativity takes courage."

"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."

"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."

"There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage."

"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner."

"If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself."

"When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part."

"Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency."

"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."

"It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams."

"Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice."

"The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them."

"Have the courage to act instead of react."

"People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too."

"I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it."

"Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?"

"Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth."

"In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?"

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."

"In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?"

"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."

"You have to have courage to be obedient to God."

"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."

"The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."

"Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world."

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."

"Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things."

"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."

"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway."

"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

"He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all."

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

"At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion."

"Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage."

"While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward."

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."

"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage."

"Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear."

"For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men."

"The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark."

"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."

"I have the courage of my convictions."

"In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm."

"A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy."

"It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove."

"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free."

"Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done."

"America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech."

"If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment."

"I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!"

"Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage."

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."

"So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."

"It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle."

"There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing."

"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."

"And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working."

"I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double."

"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act."

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."

"Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined."

"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."

"Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met."

"Courage in danger is half the battle."

"Courage easily finds its own eloquence."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

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

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

"She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails."

"You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you do not have the strength."

"A woman is like a tea bag — you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

"Strength is the product of struggle. You must do what others don't to achieve what others won't."

"My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down."

"Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it."

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

"Life does not get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient."

"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about."

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"Stars cannot shine without darkness."

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."