Quotes About Courage

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

The weaker I am, the harder I must lean on God's grace; the harder I lean on him, the stronger I discover him to be, and the bolder my testimony to his grace.

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now. You've got to roar like forest fire.

If you have courage, strengthen it…if you have none, develop it. We'll need it all through this conflict and afterward.

You choose your battles. I think it's important to choose what battles you stand up for. But there are some battles that you should never, ever stand down from.

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

In jou, Lizzie Rosenfeld, bange bakvis, dappere hoer, ondermaans onderwatermeisje, alleen in jou verdiep ik mij, dompel ik mij onder, graaf ik mij in, tot victorieuze verstikking toe.

That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look (in sterquilinis invenitur defined)

So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.

In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.

You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you aare always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.

There are some games you don't get to play unless you are all in.

Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker.

But there will be times in your life when it will take everything you have to face what is in front of you, instead of hiding away from a truth so terrible that the only thing worse is the falsehood you long to replace it with.

What is the moral of the story? Make yourself colorful, stand out, and the lions will take you down. And the lions are always there.

Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.

truth, virtue, and courage are not necessarily enough, but they are our best bet.

To stand up straight with your shoulders back means building the ark that protects the world from the flood, guiding your people through the desert after they have escaped tyranny, making your way away from comfortable home and country, and speaking the prophetic word to those who ignore the widows and children. It means shouldering the cross that marks the X, the place where you and Being intersect so terribly.

If you confront the suffering and malevolence, and if you do that truthfully and courageously, you are stronger, your family is stronger, and the world is a better place. The alternative is resentment, and that makes everything worse.

You have to be willing to be a fool to advance.

It is our responsibility to see what is before our eyes, courageously, and to learn from it, even if it seems horrible—even if the horror of seeing it damages our consciousness, and half-blinds us. The act of seeing is particularly important when it challenges what we know and rely on, upsetting and destabilizing us.