Courage
733 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 722 from other voices.
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- The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
- The characteristic of heroism is its persistency.
- The courage of today becomes the character of tomorrow.
- The courage to take the first step. The discipline to take the next one.
- The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
- The effort always to do your best will enlarge your capacity for doing things, and will encourage you to push ahead toward larger triumphs.
- The electric telegraph will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.
- The fact is, that to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- The fear of judgment limits what’s possible.
- The fears we don’t face becomes our limits.
- The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor RooseveltCommonly attributed
- The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
- The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
- The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
- The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
- The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually afraid you will make one.
- The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- The hard choices – what we most fear doing, asking, saying – these are very often exactly what we most need to do.
- The hard stuff will always be hard. The scary stuff will always be scary. It won’t ever feel easy and you won’t ever feel like doing it. The real way to move forward is knowing that you can push yourself. You can do it anyway. That’s how you succeed.
- The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.
- The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
- The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- The influence of the brave man is contagious and creates an epidemic of noble zeal in all about him.
- The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.
- The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
- The man who has no enemies has no following.
- The man who is ready to risk all for God can count upon God to do all for him.
- The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
- The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
- The more powerful an obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it.
- The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honour which set off virtue.
- The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
- The more something scares you, the more you should do it.
- The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.
- The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
- The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.