Best 4238 quotes in «courage quotes» category

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term "hero" is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially in every man.

It is what you do about what happens that counts.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.

It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.

It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.

It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways.

It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning.

It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage.

It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.

Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.

It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

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.

I was only given this life because I'm strong enough to live it.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it.

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.

Leaders when not leading are outcasts.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

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.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.