Courage Quotes - Page 20

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

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

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.

Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant to old patterns. It is sticky, uncomfortable, agitating, and difficult. But it is liberating and life giving and spirit enriching. It changes your life and the lives of everyone who joins you on your journey. And then, quite unexpectedly, you realize you are splashing hope into the lives of others because you have an intimate love relationship with the Source of hope.

The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence.

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

The universe is always sending you inspiration, you just have to listen and allow.

A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.