Courage Quotes - Page 39

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

Children need encouragement like plants need water

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Courage is knowing what to fear.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.

Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.