Courage
733 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 722 from other voices.
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- One man with God is a majority though there be a thousand on the other side.
- One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
- One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
- One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
- One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
- Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Optimism is true moral courage.Ernest ShackletonSourced
- Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
- Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
- Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
- Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.François de La RochefoucauldCommonly attributed
- Perfect valor is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world.
- Persevere on, my brave lads. We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
- Place before your eyes as models for imitation, not the weak and cowardly, but the fervent and courageous.
- Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
- Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
- Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
- Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
- Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
- Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
- Regret will haunt you more than failure.
- Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!
- Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right.
- Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
- Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Risk is the companion of innovation. As the Chinese proverb says, ”Unless you enter the tiger’s den you cannot take the cubs.”
- Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
- Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.
- "Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders. A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Seize this very minute: What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
- Shame hates to have words wrapped around it. If we talk about it, it loses its grip on us.Brené BrownSourced
- Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
- Sir, you know courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.