Quotes About Courage

Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

El amor expulsa al miedo y la gratitud doblega al orgullo.

I'd take it manfully, and be respected if I couldn't be loved

courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration…

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

There is always light behind the clouds

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world.

She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl I ever saw; there's no sentimentality about her; she is wise, and kind, and sweet. She says what she means, looks you straight in the eye, and is as true as steel.

I think that woman can do a great deal for each other if they will only stop fearing what 'people will think' and take a hearty interest in whatever is going to fit their sisters and themselves to deserve and enjoy the rights God gave them. There are so many ways in which this can be done that I wonder they don't see and improve them.

So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something.

a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, is n't worthy of the name.

only it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it.

Women who dare are few, the women who would stand and wait are many.

love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend.

Life is a fight, and I like a good soldier.

Louisa May Alcott

El amor desecha el temor, y la gratitud vence el orgullo.

Oh, when these hidden stores of ours Lie open to the Father's sight, May they be rich in golden hours, Deeds that show fairer for the light, Lives whose brave music long shall ring Like a spirit-stirring strain, Souls that shall gladly soar and sing In the long sunshine after rain.

I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. -Jo March

How did you make the boys stop calling you Dora? I trashed 'em.