Quotes About Courage And Strength

#1. Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.

Anthony Liccione

#2. It is through that brokenness that we find courage and strength. It is what empowers us to do great things.

K.S. Ruff

#3. Faith gives self-confidence and self-courage and strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Every man needs his Siren
To check his courage and strength
When he hears her song
In his travels through the unknown.

Dejan Stojanovic

#5. Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have.

Don Lemon

#6. I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.

Judith McNaught

#7. In Christ we are given the courage and strength to change the world

Michael W. Smith

#8. Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time ...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#9. The guides from the book of Joshua will combine to provide the most powerful source of courage and strength there is: faith in our Heavenly Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.

Ann M. Dibb

#10. Obedience and humility require courage and strength of character. Weakness and fear cause one to fall back on his or her pride, which results in a vicious cycle

Sienna McQuillen

#11. Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it.

Iyanla Vanzant

#12. The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.

Ai Weiwei

#13. We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.

George MacDonald

#14. To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

Jack Kornfield

#15. Faith gives self-confidence, self-courage and strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.

Helen Fisher

#17. It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That's growth!

Yvonne Pierre

#18. If you have confident, courage and strength, you can succeed in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. You can only have the courage and strength to do what you think is right. It may turn out to be wrong, but you will at least have done it, and that is the important thing. We must act according to the best dictates of our reason, and then leave God to judge its ultimate value.

Irving Stone

#20. You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

Irving Stone

#21. Hitler was calling upon Almighty God to give him courage and strength to save the German people and right the wrongs of Versailles...and then to settle down and govern the county in the interest of those millions of oppressed "little people" for whom he spoke so eloquently.

Upton Sinclair

#22. If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them ... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#23. Have the courage and strength to be yourself.
Because there is no other choice.
Do you have a choice of being somebody else?

Yoko Ono

#24. Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams.

Suzy Kassem

#25. I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

Anais Nin

#26. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...

Muse

#27. Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#28. Abundant grace, amazing life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.

Tecumseh

#30. I always loved running ... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Jesse Owens

#31. Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

Michel De Montaigne

#32. When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.

Peter Heller

#33. 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.

Og Mandino

#34. Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

Mahatma Gandhi

#35. Be robust enough to work more than a robot!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#36. Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can

Fela Durotoye

#37. Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#38. There is within you, waiting to be called, a great source of power called courage. Call its name and it will give you the strength to confront challenges despite fear and to continue and the heart to continue with bold confidence despite the pain of caused by tragedy.

Michael Josephson

#39. In life you'll face difficulties that postpone some of your dreams. Regardless, life goes fast by reminding us youth is finite and old age is stable. So you mustn't stop dreaming and running while your strength is yet tough.

Darmie Orem

#40. Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
he courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#41. Kindness is the sign of strength and courage.

Debasish Mridha

#42. You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.

Lois Lowry

#43. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

Lou Gehrig

#44. And for me, it means honoring those who've loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me.

C.J. Redwine

#45. It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

Marianne Williamson

#46. I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

Gordon Brown

#47. Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!

Ruby Bridges

#48. We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

#49. To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.

Hannah Senesh

#50. When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

Sam Raimi

#51. Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.

William Hazlitt

#52. We awake at dawn.
To sink or swim.

Kiera Woodhull

#53. It's her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where others see certain defeat that truly empowers her ...

Sarah Cross

#54. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#55. If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

Kurt Warner

#56. The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.

Rivera Sun

#57. If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

Martha Stout

#58. Scars are badges of strength and courage. They tell the story of what we have endured. Only survivors wear them.

Kaki Warner

#59. The weakest are from deeply within the strongest of all natures

Jase Wolf

#60. And when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.

David Levithan

#61. When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

Radhanath Swami

#62. Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.

Stefan Emunds

#63. Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. 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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#64. It takes courage to live in the midst of hate. And it requires strength to keep that hatred from eating your soul.

Mari Serebrov

#65. Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.

Tami Stronach

#66. I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#67. Cultivate confidence, and eradicate the need to control.

T.F. Hodge

#68. Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

Brene Brown

#69. Today's struggle will be tomorrow's strength so welcome it with love and courage.

Debasish Mridha

#70. Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.

A.D. Posey

#71. It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

Criss Jami

#72. Be strong and courageous. You can achieve your goal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#73. We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Michel De Montaigne

#74. With much prayer comes great grace from God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#75. Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#76. Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.

Jim Beaver

#77. I have this one little life to live with, it's not the plan I had in mind but I can accept its the calling of my soul. The irony in gaining freedom through the heartbreak of stillness.

Nikki Rowe

#78. Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Maria Montessori

#79. God's great grace wipes out everything else on the landscape. It is not puny but plentiful. Not teeny but torrential. Not mini but majestic. It meets us right now and equips us with courage, wisdom, and strength. So hang on - the next wave is coming!

Max Lucado

#80. Yes, it is," I whispered, "and one day the spell will not cause you to forget it.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#81. Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#82. Find the courage and the strength to turn inward and to ask a simple, soaring question.
What would LOVE do NOW?

Neale Donald Walsch

#83. It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.

John Connolly

#84. Let me tell you right now, you are not alone. Seeking help requires incredible strength and courage. The most powerful weapon you have against bullying is your voice,

Derek Hough

#85. May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

Winston Churchill

#86. Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so destitute that they will squelch my soul and crush my heart.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#87. 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.

Al Gore

#88. Witnessing the Vette's demise, the way Rick felt, there wasn't a king on Earth who he would bow to. No religious figure whose hand he'd kiss. No icon of history he'd worship. No one whose autograph he'd seek. He was becoming a legend, and he was alive to feel it happen.

Rich Hoffman

#89. Trolls must continually feed their bottomless need, so be strong and patiently wait out their fires of hatred for eventually they eat their own.

L.M. Fields

#90. All good things are borne from evil, just like good people. It's very rare that someone does things purely out of the goodness of their heart. Most need something to fight against, something to drive them forward in order to create a light in what will always be a very dark world.

Kevin Reaver

#91. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.

Rachel L. Schade

#92. I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

Donella Meadows

#93. Channel the power of anger into the admirable qualities of passion, strength, and conviction or courage. Use quiet, carefully modulated words surrounding an edge of steel.

Gerald J. Lieberman

#94. A father gives his child nothing better than a good education

Anonymous

#95. Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything!

K.L. Toth

#96. When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Audre Lorde

#97. She was tired of being a symbol. Symbols were stagnant, frozen, representative, and spurring of action but never the action itself.

Elise Kova

#98. The warrior woman is filled with the courage, confidence, and inner strength to leave the past behind. She knows that there is no way to express herself fully when she is still carrying burdens that need to be released.

Debbie Ford

#99. Being strong doesn't mean that you never break! Being strong means that even if you break into a million pieces, you still have the courage to pick those pieces up, put them back together, and keep going on.

Manprit Kaur

#100. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.

Brooke Foss Westcott