Courage Quotes - Page 31

If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.

Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

Live in your hopes and not in your fears.

I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.

Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything. They become the Soul of the World.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword