Courage Quotes

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Courage is the antidote to danger.

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.

A commitment to growth is a commitment to risk, courage, faith, strength, hope, and a willingness to make mistakes, get back up and try again.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

Get the hell out of my way!

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.

Not trusting your sixth sense, will always -and I mean always- come back to haunt you. Have the courage to stand alone and trust your vibes.

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

The world has no room for cowards.

Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage

The French courage proceeds from vanity

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!

Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.

The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.

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

Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us.

[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.

Pause and remember - At any moment you have the power to say 'this is enough' and radically change the course of your destiny. Have the faith and courage to follow your hearts calling.

You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.