Quotes About Courage

When I am weak, then am I strong.

Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."

Ask in faith.

Don't be timid when you pray; rather, batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.

Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it is hopeless.

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.

I'll have to, as you say, take a stand, do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

Half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

He that fights and runs away Will live to fight another day.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Life is a perilous voyage.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.