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Quotes About Resilience

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Necessity does the work of courage.
~ George Eliot
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
~ Winston Churchill
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.
~ C. S. Lewis
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
~ Winston Churchill
Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
~ Maya Angelou
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
~ C. S. Lewis
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
~ Alice Walker
Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
~ George Horace Lorimer
The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
~ Victor Hugo
Be courageous! ... I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.
~ Thomas A. Edison
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is not the absence of fear, it's to feel the fear and face it anyway.
~ Jeanette Coron
There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.
~ John Wainwright
If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.
~ Unknown
Many become brave when brought to bay.
~ Norwegian proverb