Courage and Strength

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”

 

Was there a man dismay’d?

 

Theirs not to make reply,

 

I hold it true, whate’er befall;

 

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’

 

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Valour needs first strength, then a weapon. J. R. R.

 

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

 

Hardness shatters; strength endures.