Courage Quotations | Page 4

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

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

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

I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I want to work as hard as I can. But I also want six kids! It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

I used to be so intimidated by spin classes. I'd always go by and see people on their bikes looking so intense. But one day my sister and I worked up the courage to go in, and now we're hooked!

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.

Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

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

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

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

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

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