Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all. from David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art...
There are no easy answers; but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it's going on when you don't have the strength.
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Do the thing you think you cannot do.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Sooner or later, if we follow Christ we have to risk everything in order to gain everything. We have to gamble on the invisible and risk all that we can see and taste and feel. But we know the risk is worth it, because there is nothing more insecure than the transient...
Gentleness is not weakness. Just the opposite. Preserving a gentle spirit in a heartless world takes extraordinary courage, determination, and resilience. Do not underestimate the power of gentleness because gentleness is strength wrapped in peace, and therein lies...
That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it...accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would...
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that whispers, I'll try again tomorrow.