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Quotes About Courage

I don't know how it is for you earthlings, but where I'm from, strength is mental.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
God knows your breaking point. You simply don't know your own strength.
~ Swami Satchidananda
Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.
~ Hal Higdon
It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.
~ Benjamin Graham
A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.
~ David Richo
Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.
~ Catherine Booth
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.
~ Malala Yousafzai
The only book that is worth writing is the one we don't have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed
~ Helene Cixous
I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.
~ Peter Gabriel
I always look to my mom for strength and courage when I need it.
~ Dinah-Jane Hansen
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
~ Dalai Lama
Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard.
~ Miep Gies
Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.
~ Joan Halifax
A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.
~ Martin Niemoller
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.
~ Jeremy Collier
Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will.
~ Muhammadu Buhari
God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."
~ Amy Tan
Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
~ Hilary Mantel
Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish.
~ Scott Jurek
Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.
~ Sai Baba
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
~ Sarah Dessen
Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.
~ Dale Evans
Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can go on to say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'
~ Alexander MacLaren