Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
~ Ruby Dee
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
~ Ovid
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.
~ Bindi Irwin
There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.
~ Yuvraj Singh
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
~ Sam Raimi
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.
~ Carmen Dell'orefice
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
~ John Stuart Mill
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
~ Oscar Wilde
The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
~ Ai Weiwei
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
~ John Eldredge
I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.
~ Judith Mcnaught
School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals.
~ Donna Brazile
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
~ Al Gore
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
~ Carly Fiorina
Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.
~ Helen Fisher
I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.
~ Diane Von Furstenberg
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
~ Gordon Brown
Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have.
~ Don Lemon
I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you're an artist in any way, shape or form.
~ Dave Gahan
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
~ Scott Hamilton
When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
~ Radhanath Swami
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
~ Robert Peel
Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.
~ Ricky Martin
And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
~ Michelle Obama
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
~ Victor Hugo
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
~ Thomas Hardy
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
~ Stanley Baldwin
Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.
~ Karen Salmansohn
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
~ Major Taylor
I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
~ Paul Bremer
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
~ Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
~ Omar N. Bradley
If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.
~ Max Lucado
In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
~ Ben Horowitz
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
~ Eamon De Valera
My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.
~ Elizabeth Esty
