Inspirational Quotes

Strength vs Courage by Author Unknown

It takes strength to be firm.
It takes courage to be gentle.

It takes strength to stand guard.
It takes courage to let down your guard

It takes strength to conquer.
It takes courage to surrender.

It takes strength to be certain.
It takes courage to have doubt.

It takes strength to fit in.
It takes courage to stand out.

It takes strength to feel a friend’s pain.
It takes courage to feel your own pain.

It takes strength to hide your own pains.
It takes courage to show them.

It takes strength to endure abuse.
It takes courage to stop it.

It takes strength to stand alone.
It takes courage to lean on another.

It takes strength to love.
It takes courage to be loved.

It takes strength to survive.
It takes courage to live.

“At the end of the day…the fact that we still have the courage to be standing, is reason enough to celebrate!”~Grey’s Anatomy

“You cannot live with hope alone, but without it — you cannot live!”~Harvey Milk

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”~Buddha

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”~Buddha

“Suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becomming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us — extraordinary.”~Dorothy Allison

“I can stand with the weight of the world
On my shoulders
I can fight with the toughest of the tough
I can laugh in the face
Of all my insecurities
Anytime, anywhere, anything
I’m strong enough!”~Jessica Andrews

“If one advances confidently, in the direction of her own dreams, and endeavors to lead the life she has imagined, she will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”~Henry David Thoreau

“Experience is not what happens to a woman. It is what she does with what happens to her.”~Aldous Huxley

“Experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke, at best I am going to chip away at it.”~Hugh Prather

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.”~George C. Scott

“Dance like nobody’s watching;
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Sing like nobody’s listening
Live like it’s heaven on earth.”~Mark Twain
“Hope is like a bird that senses dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.”~Author Unknown

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”~Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.”~Dr. Joan Borysenko, “Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism”

“We cannot go back and make a new start, but we can start now to make a new ending.”~Author Unknown

“What you need to know about the past is that no matter what happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right Now.”~from “Touched By An Angel”

“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the strength within you that survives all the hurt.”~Jules

“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the judgment that there is something more important than fear.”~quote from the movie “The Princess Diaries”

“Everything is always okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.”~Unknown

“When you reach the end of all the lightness that you know
And are about to step over into darkness…
Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen.
Either there will be something solid there to step onto
Or you will be taught to fly.”~Author Unknown

“One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other’s stories.”~Rebecca Falls

“When you have come to the edge
Of all light that you know
And are about to drop off into the darkness
Of the unknown,
Faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on
or you will be taught to fly”~Patrick Overton

“The sturdiest tree is not found in the shelter of the forest but high upon some rocky crag, where its daily battle with the elements shapes it into a thing of beauty.”~Unknown

“You have to crawl into the wounds to discover what your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.”~Tori Amos

“Someone was hurt before you…..beaten before you; humiliated before you; raped before you; yet someone survived.”~Maya Angelou

“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”~Maya Angelou

“Nothing will work unless you do.”~Maya Angelou

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”~Maya Angelou

“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”~Maya Angelou

“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.”~John Lancaster Spalding