Quotes About Courage

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crises, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

Down you mongrel, Death! Back into your kennel!

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

He who can lick can bite.

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall, - Some days must be dark and dreary.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.