Courage Quotations | Page 5

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

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

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.

Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, 'Why don't you have the courage to show up in a body that's natural, not overly worked out?'

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, 'No,' and presented a peace plan.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

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

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

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

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.

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

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear.

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

People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'