Best 4238 quotes in «courage quotes» category

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes.

A brave man is seldom unkind.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

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

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

Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

A gentleman can live through anything.

A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

Ah, never shall the land forget How gush'd the life-blood of the brave, Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save!

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.

All art requires courage.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Another word for creativity is courage.

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.