“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”
Courage for a hard day
Quotes about courage and holding on, for a day that asks a lot of you.
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
“It will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”
The Unnamable, 1954. Book.
“Tough times never last - tough people do.”
“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
“While there's life, there's hope.”
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
“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.'”
“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.”
“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“From caring comes courage.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“You can't test courage cautiously.”
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
“Have the courage to act instead of react.”