Courage Quotes - Page 13

Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

Discouragement is not from God.

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

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

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

My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

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.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.