Sarah Silverman Quotes

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

'Oz' means strength - and it also means courage.

After a sheltered life, I went the other way. I wanted to prove how tough I was.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.

I feel like I learned that I am so much stronger than I ever thought I was, not just emotionally, but physically.

I didn't need to get knocked down to know the fortitude that I have in me.

It's real easy to talk about stepping in the ring, but once you do actually step in the ring, it takes a lot of courage and mental fortitude to do what we do.

Every game is mentally and physically tough but we get through it and it makes you stronger.

I think I was pretty tough as a youngster.

It takes a lot of courage in that cage no matter who you are.

We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

You don't have to fit into a particular box. You fit into a box that you're comfortable in, and you'll attract people with like minds. It took me a while to figure this out, but there are many ideals. You have to figure right what's best for you and that will radiate out of you. I think a certain amount of letting go and being brave and not being afraid to make mistakes to get there.