Strength And Courage Quotes

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
― Tim Fargo

“It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…”
― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

“What's the point of wandering?
to find a better place?
a home?
But the loneliness will always capture me
in its claws
of no tomorrow”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon

“Sometimes you're trying so hard to get your life together and still it's not enough, everything is falling apart. What to do, you're asking. Just keep going through hell for yourself, not for everyone else. Richer with that wisdom, I will build my happiness from nothing. I will rise from the dust. And I will do it on my own. I will live for myself and I won’t look at the others.”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon

“I am the bended, but not broken. I am the power of the thunderstorm. I am the beauty in the beast. I am the strength in weakness. I am the confidence in the midst of doubt. I am Her!”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk; we must find our own way, what is right for one may not be for another. There is no single right way to deal with late stage cancer, to live life or approach death, or to walk an old mission trail.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.”
― Savitri Devi

“Without being push to the wall, we will have remained in our comfortable zone. But this circumstance challenges us to find the courage to move on.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, On Eagles Wings:Rise

“Love is our strength to overcome the evils of the world.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“When we keep our stories locked up inside of us, darkness wins. We must share what we’ve lived, what we’ve learned, and how we have become stronger through our experiences, in hopes that it helps others find their voice, too.”
― Laura Gagnon, The Book Satan Doesn't Want You To Read

“The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things—unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings."...”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Hey!” The male voice sliced through the noise. Terri ignored him, determined to get back to the bar for her next order. A harsh hand gripped her arm, jerking her back into a firm chest. “I asked your name.” Hot breath reeking of stale beer permeated her sinuses, making her stomach turn, as the tenor of his voice burrowed into her ear.
Fear gripped her. Memories of the way Randy would grab her, and where it always ended, slammed into her, making her head spin. Shaking it off, Terri narrowed her eyes and whirled around, jabbing a red lacquered nail into his powder blue polo. “Back off,” she warned, snatching her arm back.
He advanced on her, his large frame towering over her. “Just wanna know your name, sweetheart,” he said with a sleazy smile. “No need to get testy.”
“You haven’t seen me testy.”
As she turned her back on him and continued on her way, he called out to her.
“Yet.”

Terri--from Spring Cleaning--Coming Summer 2012”
― Brandi Salazar, Spring Cleaning

“Love can make us weak-kneed and wobbly, but when it needs to, it can make us stronger than steel.”
― Len Vlahos, Life in a Fishbowl

“Wandering"

What’s the point of wandering?
to find a better place?
a home?
The loneliness will always capture me
in its claws
of no tomorrow”
― Annette Dabrowska, Behind the Ghost Metropolis: Mental Health and Healing Poetry Book

“May you have the courage to begin; the patience to persist; and the strength to finish.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Why is choosing Folly to Understand cries the Boy", Its an old's Man's Gag said the older Brother".”
― Emmanuel Weber

“Perhaps the core of strength a person needed to thrive in this world was made of chalk. Perhaps it could be washed away, broken apart, crumbled under a cruel maternal hand. Or perhaps it was granite. Perhaps it needed only to be carefully mined and polished.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“Empowerment is our journey from adversity to strength. To all survivors out there: Your resilience is your superpower, and your story is a beacon of hope for others. Keep shining, keep inspiring. (I Am A Survivor speech August 12, 2023)”
― Carlos Wallace

“I remember what my father said the day he cried. "You'll make it, Peyton. You're strong."
I decide that I will never give up.”
― Penelope Przekop, Please Love Me

“All his life, he has been
as strong and tall as an oak tree,
towering over the world.
She sees through the canopy of leaves
and the protective layer of bark
that surrounds him.
She sees the new green shoots
of growth curling towards the light,
and the way his roots reach towards stability.
All his life, he has needed to be strong,
but with her, he can be vulnerable.
Underneath the soil, their
roots tangle together, like two
hands reaching out.”
― Eli Ray, Twelve Midnight

“Not every girl has a rape story. But almost every girl has an "I'm not sure, I didn't like it, but I can't quite call it rape" story”
― RF Kuang

“What was stolen from me cannot define me. What I build from the ruins of my past will be my legacy”
― Hagir Elsheikh, Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled

“Hold onto life like a mother to her child, for the pain and labor of today will be washed away in tomorrow's rain of joy.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Go with the strength of a lion. The wisdom of a serpent. And the stealth of a tortoise.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Let's Start this New Year right by finding some pep in our step as we SEE the Music in our JOURNEY "
Cheers
BY Bonnie Zackson Koury”
― Ms Bonnie Zackson Koury, Bonnie Koury, Bonnie Z. Koury