Courage Quotes

I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place.

There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.

The courage to try something new makes me proud.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it.

The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

It is to live that requires courage, not to die.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

Everyone is in need of encouragement at some time. Take the opportunity today to encourage (give courage to) the one who often encourages you.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

Great courage will be required to choose the right.

To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.

It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion

It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.

If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.

If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

The measure of your life will be the measure of your courage.

I am more important than my problems.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

Never bury something deep, baby. Takes twice as much courage to be who you are, say what you think, feel what you feel and let it show then it does to bury it.

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart

It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.