Courage Quotes - Page 35

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.

God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.

Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.

My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of God, they're never separated. Where there is pain, there is healing. Where there is mourning, there is dancing. Where there is poverty, there is the kingdom.

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.