Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

I have the strength to endure it all.

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

I said in my mind, 'keep fighting.'

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

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.

'Dream' is about having fears and doing your best to embrace them no matter how strenuous the grip is.

Inner strength is very important.

The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside.

I'm going to stand in my truth no matter what.

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.