Quotes on Courage

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

The thing of courage_x000D_ _x000D_ As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,_x000D_ _x000D_ And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,_x000D_ _x000D_ Retorts to chiding fortune.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,_x000D_ _x000D_ And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Courage is of the heart by derivation,_x000D_ _x000D_ And great it is. But fear is of the soul.

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs_x000D_ _x000D_ Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla_x000D_ _x000D_ Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti._x000D_ _x000D_ Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; _x000D_ _x000D_ no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.