Courage
733 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 722 from other voices.
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- The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- The only failures are those who fail to try.
- The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
- The pain of trying and failing is intense and over rather quickly. The pain of failing to try, on the other hand, is less intense but never really goes away.
- The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
- The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprize; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
- The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.
- The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
- The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
- The spirit of courage will transform the whole temper of your life.
- The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- The truth is, you already know what you want, you’re just scared of looking stupid. Let Them judge. Let Them laugh. Let Them think whatever they want. Just don’t let that be the reason you never go for it.
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- The way of a superior man is three-fold: virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.
- The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time.Brené BrownCommonly attributed
- There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
- There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
- There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
- There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
- There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
- There can be heroism in the moment, but courage is always in the day-to-day.
- There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.
- There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
- There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
- There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
- There is great beauty in going through life fearlessly. Half our fears are baseless, the other half discreditable.
- There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
- There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.
- There is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.
- There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
- There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
- There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.