Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
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.
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.
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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.
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to 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.
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
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