Courage and Strength

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

The question is not who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

I don’t come to bow, I come to conquer.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.