Quotes to inspire and reflect

Codeine . . . bourbon.

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Is it not meningitis?

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

What makes one heroic? -- Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that hope never entirely removes.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

That's how the light gets in.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Another word for creativity is courage.

Believe you can and you are halfway there.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.

There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Courage is the most important virtue because it makes all others possible.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

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. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.