Courage Quotes - Page 25

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions.

I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

If people are kicking you in the behind, at least you're in front of them.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.