Courage is the ability to confront fear.

The climb is a journey that tests our strength, courage, and resolve.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough

The more wit the less courage

Despair gives courage to a coward

Young man, be of good courage. Care not for what the world says or thinks: you will not be with the world always. Can man save your soul? No. Will man be your judge in the great and dreadful day of account? No. Can man give you a good conscience in life, a good hope in death, a good answer in the morning of resurrection? No! no! no! Man can do nothing of the sort. Then “fear not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings: for the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool” (Isa. 51:7,8). Call to your mind the saying of good Colonel Gardiner: “I fear God, and therefore I have none else to fear.” Go and be like him.

The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor … If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

Mark Twain once said that true bravery isn’t the absence of fear, but the ability to act in the face of fear.

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject

The morality of the church is anachronistic. Will it ever develop a moral insight and courage sufficient to cope with the real problems of modern society? If it does it will require generations of effort and not a few martyrdoms. We ministers maintain our pride and self-respect and our sense of importance only through a vast and inclusive ignorance. If we knew the world in which we live a little better we would perish in shame or be overcome by a sense of futility.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back

If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace

Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory.

Memorable people do memorable things. Followers are seldom remembered. The herd mentality is the killer of innovation. When appropriate, be bold in your undertakings.

Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.

Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.

Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.

People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow

In order to achieve your dreams, you must first have the courage to pursue them.

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Wishing you a great journey.

I Finally Got The Courage To Ask You On A Date. So Just Say Yes, Let The Future Fall Into Place

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

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope

To be an artist means never to avert your gaze, no matter how painful the truth might be.

But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one’s own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

One man with courage is a majority.

In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it’s the courage to continue that counts.

Of course, we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them; we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!

This country’s been around for a couple of hundred years, and we think we’re hot shit. We don’t even realize that other countries have thousands of years of history and culture, and they’re proud of it. And when we deal on an international level, you know, with foreign policy and stuff like that, and we try and go in as a big American, strong country and all that stuff, they must laugh up their sleeves at us because we are nothing. We are culturally nothing. We mean nothing. We’re only interested in the bottom line.

Don’t be afraid to be vulnerable and open up about your struggles. It can inspire others and help them feel less alone.

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

People often talk about how I’m courageous, but I believe everybody should be courageous. Courage is being scared to death but remaining resolute.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an ‘I’ without shame.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That’s all any of us have.

You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.

Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

The true Christian must have courage to withstand wrong influences.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier.

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.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence, and intelligence until these qualities’ lock in’ to your subconscious mind.

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Is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it’s the courage to continue that counts.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

I’m not afraid to take risks, I’m fearless.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money, I could have invaded some country.

Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal, the open mind against the credulous, the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need).

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice… it is conformity.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of courage. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but in expressing them correctly; and we can now see that it is biologically undeniable that unless we harness passion to the service of spirit there can be no progress. Sooner or later, then, and in spite of all our incredulity, the world will take this step – because the greater truth always prevails and the greater good emerges in the end.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.

Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.

This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

Face your path with courage, don’t be scared of people’s criticism. And, above all, don’t let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.

All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it’s possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don’t be afraid to be the best.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

New sorrows teach new courage. Time makes the bitterest pain to ‘blossom like Aaron’s rod with flowers.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.

Well, since I’m six years old, I’ve been playing the violin, the piano, I’ve been singing. It’s always been a dream of mine, but I really never had the courage to actually go and do it professionally.

My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and righteous heart. In the name of my father, I will kill Mundus!

I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish… The trouble is you won’t fight. You’ve given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there’s something just as inevitable as death, and that’s life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that’s in the universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. That’s the same power within you if you only have the courage and the will to use it.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood.

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss and failure into success.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Life is not meant to be easy my child, but take courage: it can be delightful.

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

There are as many nights as days, and one is just as long as the other in the year’s course

I have the courage to be mistaken.

I gave you everything. What’s mine is yours. I want you to live your life of course, but I hope you get what you dying for

The courage of truth is the first qualification for philosophic studies.

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality

Since it is so likely that [children] will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker

Courage, dear heart.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the courage to surpass others at whatever cost, but the courage to serve others at whatever the cost.

Political courage is not political suicide.

The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.

The true meaning of courage is to be afraid – and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, take the leap anyway.

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life’s greatest reward and life’s greatest adventure.

Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.

Never question the size of Ice Cube’s balls.

Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.

Have the courage to follow your passion – and if you don’t know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love – who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.