Courage Quotes - Page 8

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Always desire to learn something useful

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.

The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.