Dorothy Thompson Quotes

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

What is stronger, fear or hope?

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

Don't give up, courage is my conviction.

But desperate people find courage.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

In valor there is hope.

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.