George MacDonald Quotes

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

As I contemplate all that you face in the world today, one word comes to my mind. It describes an attribute needed by all of us but one which you-at this time of your life and in this world-will need particularly. That attribute is courage.

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.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. 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.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

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

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

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

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy-mate rial or spiritual. We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

This world is not for cowards.

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

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.