Of Strength, Courage, and Confidence...

I saw these beautiful quotes a while ago and I thought of sharing them with you!

True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.
- Unknown

"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes"
- Maggie Kuhn, Social Activist

Courage is not living without fear.
Courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway.
- Chae Richardson

Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now but it cant rain forever.
- Hailee

Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday
- Unknown

A strong person is not the one who doesn't cry. A strong person is one who is quiet and sheds tears for a moment, and then picks up her sword and fights again..
- Sweet misery

It takes strength to be firm and it takes courage to be gentle.
It takes strength to conquer and it takes courage to surrender.
It takes strength to be certain and it takes courage to have doubt.
It takes strength to fit in and it takes courage to stand out.
It takes strength to feel a friend's pain and it takes courage to feel your own pain.
It takes strength to endure abuse and it takes courage to stop it.
It takes strength to stand alone and it takes courage to lean on another.
It takes strength to love and it takes courage to be loved.
It takes strength to survive and it takes courage to live.
- Unknown

Sometimes you gotta jump,
Just to see if you can fly
- Miranda Lambert

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist, writer

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. ~William J.H. Boetcker

Every artist was first an amateur. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is truly said. It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. ~Chow Ching

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential. ~Winston Churchill

Always do what you are afraid to do. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt 

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."
-Garrison Keillor

 Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.”
- August Wilson

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
-Unknown Author

Once you realize how valueable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward toward the life that God intended for you... with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino