Courage
733 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 722 from other voices.
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- If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
- If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
- If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.
- If you have the courage to start, you have the courage to succeed.
- If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?
- If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
- If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
- If you will not do the thing you know to be right, and say the thing you know to be true, then indeed you are weak.
- If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
- If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.
- If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?.
- In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
- In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.
- In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.
- In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
- In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
- In such a case (and it belongs to an enormous class), the part of wisdom as well as of courage is to believe what is in the line of your needs, for only by such belief is the need fulfilled.
- In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.
- Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
- It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
- It is always the right time to do the right thing.
- It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.
- It is better to follow your own path, however imperfectly, than to follow someone else's perfectly.
- It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea, and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
- It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.Mark TwainSourced
- It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies of the soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
- It is much more exciting to do hard things; anybody can do easy things.
- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
- It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
- It is okay to not have the answer. One of the bravest things you can do is boldly embrace the unknown, accept your fear and still continue to move forward.
- It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.
- It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr.
- It is the man or the woman of faith, and hence of courage, who is the master of circumstances, and who makes his or her power felt in the world.
- It often happens that you get nothing because you don't try anything.
- It sucks to not be liked. But it sucks more to not be yourself.
- It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.