Courage Quotes

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.

The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.

Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.

It is not the critic who counts

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, he asks us to be strong and take courage.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

Don't give up, courage is my conviction.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

Have the courage to face the truth

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]

The courage to charge for what you do comes from charging for what you do.

* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.