Quotes on Courage Strength

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.