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Quotes About Courage

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de go u" t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.
~ Charles Baudelaire
A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.
~ Fred Rogers
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
~ May Sarton
A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Your inner strength is invulnerable to fear.
~ Deepak Chopra
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.
~ Olaf Stapledon, Odd John
Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.
~ Charlie Huston, Sleepless
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
~ Andre Gide
Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
~ Samina Baig
He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.
~ Kristin Cashore, Graceling
Francesca Lia Block, Pink Smog
~ Welcome Beauty, banish fear.
A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
~ Audre Lorde
Strength is an empty shell.
~ Jack London
An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
~ J. K. Rowling
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.
~ William Shakespeare
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
Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need.
~ Richard G. Scott
Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.
~ Jimmy Rollins
Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks.
~ Melissa Marr