Quotes on Courage

When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

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

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

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.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

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

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.