Courage and Strength

Hos successus alit: possunt, quia posse videntur. These success encourages: they can because they think they can.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

The three-o’-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!

To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.’

I stand before you tonight in my red chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved … the Iron Lady of the Western World! Me? A cold war warrior? Well, yes—if that is how they wish to interpret my defence of values and freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

And now the matchless deed’s achieved,

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

But I am constant as the northern star,

Cowards die many times before their deaths;

O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west,

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,

Does it matter?—losing your sight? …

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

I am as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity.

Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend,

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

I pray you, master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and my coming down let me shift for my self.