Courage and Strength

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Fortune favors the brave.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

He, who moves not forward, goes backward.

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark thing seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities, always see them for they are always there.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!

Learn to self conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

DifficuIties mastered are opportunities won.

When the water starts boiling,it is foolish to turn off the heat.