Courage
733 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 722 from other voices.
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- There is nothing worth doing that is not scary. There is no one who has achieved greatness without wrestling with their own doubts, anxieties, limitations, and demons.
- There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
- There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
- There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
- They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
- Things should not be done by halves; if it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone. Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated.
- Think of yourself as an explorer. You cannot find anything new if you are unwilling to leave the shore.
- Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think for themselves.
- Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.
- 'Tis better to have tried in vain, Sincerely striving for a goal, Than to have lived upon the plain An idle and a timid soul.
- To aim at excellence, our reputation, our friends, and our all, must be ventured; by aiming only at mediocrity, we run no risk, and we do little service.
- To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
- To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
- To be great is to be misunderstood.
- To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
- To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
- To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
- To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
- To conquer without danger would be to conquer without glory.
- To create one’s own world takes courage.
- To decide to move forward courageously into the land of the unknown. That’s one of the secrets to a good life.
- To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
- To invent and to fail are one and the same, you cannot have one without the other.
- To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
- To let no one know of your vulnerabilities is to let no one know of your courage.
- To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism — this is the art of living.
- To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.
- To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.Leo BuscagliaSourced
- To make the future is highly risky. It is less risky, however, than not to try to make it.
- To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
- To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
- To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.
- To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.
- To step toward your destiny, you might have to step away from your security.
- To try to be brave is to be brave.George MacDonaldCommonly attributed
- To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.La RochefoucauldCommonly attributed
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.