Courage is found in unlikely places.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

I can handle pain.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

From caring comes courage.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.