Quotes on Courage

No mirror ever became iron again; _x000D_ _x000D_ No bread ever became wheat; _x000D_ _x000D_ No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. _x000D_ _x000D_ Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. _x000D_ _x000D_ Become the light.

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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

In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but will also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment - faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor, and ultimately recognize right.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!