Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Courage

Courage

Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring.--Grace Lichtenstein
All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.--Emma Goldman
Alone with none but thee, my God
I journey on my way.
What need I fear, when thou art near
O king of night and day?
More safe am I within thy hand
Than if a host did round me stand.--Columba, c 521-97
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.--Helen Keller
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.--Billie Jean King
Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage--and that's the same thing.--George Lorimer
Being afraid to fail is what prevents many of us from trying something new, putting ourselves out on a limb. It often stops us singing, running, working for an exam or telling a joke in company. Fear of failure can also stop us trying to pray. Just in case nothing happens. Just in case we feel foolish. Just in case we make a mess of it.--The Reverend Lucy Winkett ("Thought for the Day," August 16, 2016)
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.--General Omar Bradley
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.--Thucydides
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.--John Bradshaw
"Come to the edge," He said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," He said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.--Guillaume Apollinaire
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where won man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.--Clarence Darrow
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
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.--Neal A. Maxwell
Do the thing you fear, then the death of fear is certain.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Do what you fear and fear disappears.--David Joseph Schwartz
Don't forget to pack your courage for your journey to greatness.--Dave Weinbaum
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.--Robert F. Kennedy
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.--Erica Jong
Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.--Gerald Jampolsky
Fear ends where faith begins.--Giorgio A. Dano
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.--Michael Pritchard
Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. ... I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.--Smith Wigglesworth
Fearlessness is the first requisite of the spiritual life.--Mohandas Gandhi
Freedom lies in being bold.--Robert Frost
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.--D. H. Lawrence
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. --Robert G. Ingersoll
The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.--Allen Klein (Quotations to Cheer You Up)
Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.--Thich Nhat Hanh (Love in Action)
Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.--Robert Frost
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.--Unknown
He who is brave is free.--Seneca
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.--Saint Augustine
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.--Aristotle
I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.--Eudora Welty (One Writer's Beginnings)
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.--William Allen White
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.--Paula Giddings
I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load.
I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road.
Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone,
And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.--Gale Brook Burket
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.--Erica Jong
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.--Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
If our vocabulary did not contain the words trouble, adversity, calamity and grief, it could not contain the words, bravery, patience and self-sacrifice. Those who know no hardships will know no hardihood. Those who face no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the human characteristics we admire most grow in a soil with a strong mixture of trouble.--Dale Turner (Seattle Times 2/1/03)
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.--John Irving
If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.--Criss Jami
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.--Robert H. Schuller
If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.--Bahagavad Gita
In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!--Mehmet Murat Ildan
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?--Charles Lindbergh
It doesn't matter if we think we're fearless or if we do things while quaking. The important thing is to be true to our own dreams and live authentic lives.--Diane Conway (What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?)
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.--Seneca
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.--e.e. cummings
It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know is true.--Sara E. Anderson
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.--Alex Karras
It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.--Alvaro de Solva
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.--Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.--Robert Louis Stevenson
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.--Kate Seredy
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone;
But let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.--Rabindranath Tagore
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.--Anais Nin
Like gaining confidence, finding one's courage is gradual rather than all at once.--Barbara Barksdale Clowse
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.--Marianne Williamson
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.--Andre Gide
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.--Anonymous
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.--Annie Besant
Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small--never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.--Winston Churchill
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.--Clementine Paddleford
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.--Rudyard Kipling (Collected Works)
Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.--Olivia Newton-John
One person with courage makes a majority.--Andrew Jackson
One man with courage is a majority.--Thomas Jefferson
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live�--Dorothy Thompson
Out of the earth, the rose,
Out of the night, the dawn,
Out of my heart, with all its woes,
High courage to press on.--Laura Lee Randall
Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.--Alfred Adler
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.--G. K. Chesterton (All Things Considered)
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp, the latter for council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.�-Charles Caleb Colton
The secret of freedom, courage.--Thucydides
So what is courage? It is simply acting on what we know we should do, regardless of any fear we may have. It is the choice to disregard worry. It is the choice to do right, to pursue our dreams, to be successful people, to lead the way for others.--Chris Widener
Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. To fill me when I'm empty, and rock me when I'm low.--Holly Near
Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.--Douglas Pagels
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.--Mary Tyler Moore
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.--Ralph W. Sockman
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.--Erma Bombeck
There is a teaching that says that behind all hardening and tightening and rigidity of the heart, there�s always fear. But if you touch fear, behind fear there is a soft spot. And if you touch that soft spot, you find the vast blue sky. You find that which is ineffable, ungraspable, and unbiased, that which can support and awaken us at any time.--Pema Ch�dr�n (Practicing Peace)
To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, its an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to all of us.--John F. Kennedy
To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off postpone.--David Joseph Schwartz
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.--Coventry Patmore
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.--Carl Sandburg
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.. the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.--Patrick Henry
We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can�t have both. Not at the same time.--Brene Brown (Rising Strong: the Reckoning, the Rumble, the Revolution)
We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.--Philip Gulley ("Wisdom and Ephipany")
We don't have to wait for fear to vanish altogether because that moment will never come; all we need is a moment of daring that can change a whole lifetime of waiting.--Diane Conway (What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?)
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.--Eleanor Roosevelt
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.--Maxwell Maltz
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious priviledge that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.--John Bartholomew Gough
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.--Jiddu Krishnamurti
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits not foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.--Henry David Thoreau
When you are in doubt, be still, and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward in courage.--White Eagle
Where fear is, happiness is not.--Seneca
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.--Tobias G. Smollett
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.--Sir Winston Churchill
The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented, or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.--Robert J. McCracken
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.--A. C. Benson
You can't be brave if you've had only wonderful things happen to you.--Mary Tyler Moore
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.--Eleanor Roosevelt
You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.--Marsha Sinetar
You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered; you conquer yourself--your hopes, your fears.--Jim Whitaker