Courage and Strength

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leapt from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.

Who would true valour see,

I am going to my Fathers, and tho’ with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword, I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought his battles, who will now be my rewarder.

I was ever a fighter, so—one fight more,

‘You’re wounded!’ ‘Nay,’ the soldier’s pride

Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

Strength does not come from physical capacity; it comes from an indomitable will.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

It is the action, not the fruit of action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

It is easy to stand in the crowd, but it takes courage to stand alone.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.