Quotes about courage
courage roots conscience
Conscience is the root of all true courage. James Freeman Clarke
courage law faithful
This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.
courage approval principles
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. Gerald R. Ford
courage writing helpful
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. Jessamyn West
courage veterans-day strong
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. Gilbert K. Chesterton
courage government giving
It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through faith to go on in the face of questions to which we find no answer in our present status. Harold B. Lee
courage men race
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. Haile Selassie
courage spring rivers
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action. Howard Thurman
courage heart odds
I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. In such an atmosphere, why bother aiming high? Far too many people don't. I just want to reassure people to have the courage to persevere, to keep following their hearts even when others scoff. Don't be beaten down by naysayers. Don't let the odds scare you from even trying. Howard Schultz
courage morning pain
Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. Howard Cosell
courage experience herbert took
Herbert has been an inspiration to us, ... It took courage for Herbert to do what he has done and to experience what Herbert has experienced.
courage ideas innovation
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience. Hyman Rickover
courage flower night
The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know? J. R. R. Tolkien
courage dragons fire
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
courage travel bravery
Courage is found in unlikely places.
courage prudence reproach
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses. Immanuel Kant
courage honesty integrity
Do the right thing because it is right.
courage lying men
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!
courage punishment evil
There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn, And calls down punishment that is not merited... Ella Wheeler Wilcox
courage danger certain
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.... Francois de La Rochefoucauld
courage men roots
Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem.
courage bravery world
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
courage perfect world
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
courage ambition men
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.
courage war enemy
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. Horatio Nelson
courage character thinking
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. Horace Mann
courage moving brave
I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words. Gloria Steinem
courage judgement receiving
Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it. Giordano Bruno
courage determination jobs
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. Harry S Truman
courage fearful
It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create. J. M. W. Turner
courage fear men
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. H. L. Mencken
courage fear fall
Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. Guillaume Apollinaire
courage world rage
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. Grace Paley