courage quotes

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

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

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

There is always safety in valor.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.