Inspirational Quotes

I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.

~ Tahereh Mafi

What was the difference between Anne Frank and any other 15 year old girl living the same nightmare? Nothing! Aside from the fact that Anne spoke through her writings while others kept silent. Someone very special to me recently asked how can I write such personal things as child abuse, relationship problems, sexual addiction, and not fear how the family will feel about these revealings. I have the audacity to write such things because it's MY story. Not my parents, not my brothers, not my aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents... MINE. Note to those contemplating writing nonfiction. Write the story. It's yours to tell. Nevermind how your family will feel. Those that love you will not judge you. I promise. Do not let your testimony be in vain.

~ Katandra Jackson Nunnally

Anyone can be brave for five minutes or an hour or two. The bravery no one talks about is the hardest bravery of all. When you get up in the morning even though you'd rather be dead, that's brave.

~ Carys Bray

Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.

~ Nenia Campbell

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

~ Markus Zusak

It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison... it takes courage to do something about it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Bravery is not the trait of a fearless person, lest the reckless actions of a fool be considered brave. Bravery is the quality that allows us to overcome our fears and succeed.

~ Gerard De Marigny

Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Bravery and Stupidity are the same thing, the outcome determines your label.

~ Hayden Sixx

Be calm, be brave, it'll be okay.

~ Guster

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so wel

~ Anne Bradstreet

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

~ Abigail Adams

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

~ Horace Bushnell

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

~ Florida Scott-Maxwell

Brotherhood is born in adversity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

~ Carolyn Wells

Sometimes we have to reach rock bottom before we're willing to rise up and overcome our trials.

~ Dana Arcuri

It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there.

~ Lauren F. Winner

Adversity is hidden treasure of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity is test of faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you knew the golden treasures of adversity, you will bravely embrace it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

~ J.k. Rowling

We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. -Bishop Milton Wright to Orville Wright, 20 Sept. 1908

~ David Mccullough

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

~ Liezi

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

~ Debasish Mridha

When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us.

~ Leslie G Nelson

Adversity is the litmus of faith, and only by continuing on in a spirit of total determination and self belief do we achieve what we set out to do.

~ Cash Peters

The devil will never rest, nor sleep, nor turn his head from you. He will find every fault, every weakness, every discrepancy he can magnify, expand and contort every sin to cause you to abort your mission here; to cause you to feel like a worthless, ignoble, useless, piece of garbage to get you to fail in your task that God has for you. So what are you going to do about it?

~ Garrett Fredlund

Be kind whenever, you can.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be what you wish to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.

~ Amelia Boynton

You must get close to people and then you know who they are.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be.

~ Carew Papritz

Rise up and be you. Your rise is your growth.

~ Anita R. Sneed-Carter

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

~ Idries Shah

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

~ John Green

He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.

~ John Corey Whaley

We live in an adolescent society, Neverland, where never growing up seems more the norm than the exception. Little boys wearing expensive suits and adult bodies should not be allowed to run big corporations. They shouldn’t be allowed to run governments, armies, religions, small businesses and charities either and just quietly, they make pretty shabby husbands and fathers too. Mankind has become Pankind and whilst “lost boys” abound, there is also an alarming increase in the number of “lost girls.

~ Daniel Prokop

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.

~ Jack London

Jump, when they say, and ask, how high? It is the only way to truly fit in. And who would want to be any different?

~ Amy L. Orr