Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

- Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men,and prosperity makes monsters.

- Victor Hugo

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

- Victor Hugo

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

- Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

- Victor Hugo

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

- Victor Hugo

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

- Winston Churchill

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- John F. Kennedy

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

- e. e. cummings

A man of courage is also full of faith.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

- Bruce Lee

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

- Aristotle

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

- Michelle Obama

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

- Thomas S. Monson