I soothe my soul with hopes and watch for them; how narrow life would be without the wide expanse of hope.

While there is life, there is hope.

Joseph, though lost, will come back to Canaan — do not grieve; the house of sorrows will one day be a garden of roses — do not grieve.

This too shall pass.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

Fall down seven times, rise up eight.

Fire tests gold; adversity tests the brave.

At dawn, when you are reluctant to rise, say to yourself: I wake to do the work of a human being.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

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.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.