Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.--David Hume ("Of the Standard of Taste" Four Dissertations) 

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.--Khalil Gibran 

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.--Jean Anouilh (Becket) 

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.--George Sand 

Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can hove existence only in memory, we give it immortality there.--Bertha Damon (A Sense of Humus) 

Beauty you may have with you always, if you will but plant beauty in your heart.--Fred De Witt Van Amburgh 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.--Helen Keller

Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer 

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton 

Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.--John Amatt 

All my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.--Babe Didrikson Zaharias 

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.--Elizabeth O'Connor (Eighth Day of Creation: Gifts and Creativity) 

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.--Roger Crawford 

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.--Jim Rohn ( Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - February 11, 2003) 

Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.--James Ramesy Ullman 

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.--Hillary Rodham Clinton 

Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.--Madeleine Albright 

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life or say and do things that make people think.--Justice William O. Douglas 

The great crises of life are not, I think, necessarily those which are in themselves the hardest to bear, but those for which we are least prepared.--Mary Adams 

The greatest challenge we face as human beings is acting on what we know. We don’t lack for knowing, we lack for doing.--Mark Sanborn ( Up, Down, or Sideways) 

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.--Carol Burnett

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.--Jerry Gillies 

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.--Gertrude Stein 

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook) 

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.--Mary Anne Radmacher 

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.--David Ben-Gurion 

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.--Billy Graham 

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker 

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values.--Rollo May (The Courage to Create) 

Courage is not simply another virtue, it is the true form each and every virtue takes when put into practice.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: The Foundation of Integrity - 6/1/2001) 

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.--Ambrose Redmoon 

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.--Alice M. Swaim 

Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent...It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...--Catherine Britton 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.--Mark Twain 

Courage is the atom of change.--Bettina R. Flores 

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.--Aristotle 

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.--Clare Boothe Luce (in Reader's Digest, 1979) 

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.--Maya Angelou 

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

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.--Amelia Earhart 

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.--Ruth Gordon 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.--Winston Churchill 

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. People do what they must--in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures--and that is the basis of all human morality.--John F. Kennedy 

Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.--Joan L. Curcio

To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the redeption and final glorification of men; and this faith is the best inspiration to a holy and useful life for the good of our race of the glory of God.”  ~ Philip Schaff (Theologian)

“Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string — the pearls lie scattered on the ground.”  ~ Charles  H. Spurgeon (Nineteenth Century English Preacher)

“God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.”  ~ William Booth (A British Methodist Preacher and founder of the Salvation Army)

“Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”  ~ Corrie Ten Boom (A Dutch Christian who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust)

“Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.”  ~ George Macdonald (Scottish author, poet and Christian minister)

“A string of opinions no more constitutes faith, than a string of beads constitutes holiness.”  ~ John Wesley (Anglican cleric and Christian Theologian, co-founder of the Methodist Church)

“Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.”  ~ Anthony Farindon (Famous English Preacher)

“The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.”  ~ George Muller (English Evangelist)

“I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.”  ~ Charles Kingsley (English Clergyman)

“When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.”  ~ Matthew Henry (English Bible Commentator and Minister)