Quotes on Courage

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

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?

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.

Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.

If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

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

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

The great home of the soul is the open road.

Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.

It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.