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Quotes About Resilience

Courage is ignoring your fear.
~ Tamara Ecclestone
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.
~ Peter McWilliams
When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."
~ Frank Langella
The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont
~ George R. R. Martin
When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.
~ Michael Steinhardt
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
~ Horace
In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.
~ Len Smith
From my father's side I got the strength, the mental toughness, the heart, the courage.
~ Mariano Rivera
I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.
~ L. Frank Baum
The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.
~ Mardy Grothe
The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
~ Albert Camus
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.
~ Ted Malloch
Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.
~ Barbara Deming
Courage is caution overcome.
~ Lyman Abbott
To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen.
~ Brene Brown
Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.
~ Ysabeau S. Wilce
It is easier to die bravely than to live so.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.
~ Ruta Sepetys
Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.
~ Diane Dreher
He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.
~ John Donne
One Child's courage to survive.
~ Dave Pelzer
The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.
~ William Shakespeare
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.
~ Rajneesh