courage
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the thing that weighs you down.”
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
“I would rather be ashes than dust!”
“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.”
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you—”