Courage Quotes - Page 21

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and I chewed as fast as I could.

Hope is the expectation of fulfillment that is anchored in God's promise to meet my need. Hope is not based on my emotional or mental determination. It is rooted in God. Quite simply, we are optimistic because we have placed our hope.

Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

Always be courageous and strong, & don't fear. You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and encouragement you can, then the virtue within him will, itself do all the rest.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

True contentment comes with empathy.