Aldo Leopold Quotes

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.

I have never been worried because when you have hope and peace, you can handle anything.

When you have hope, and you have peace, you can handle anything.

There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Without God and the strong heart that I have, I wouldn't be able to make it.

Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . . "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.

I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see tomorrow. I’m no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.

Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.

Throughout the journey of my life, I have maintained a strong faith in the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.