Courage is grace under pressure.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

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.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

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

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

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

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.