Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

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.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

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.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.