Courage Quotes - Page 14

Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn’t bravery at all. It is automatic, unflinching, a mix of man and machine, consuming and unquestionable obligation meeting illness move for move in a giant even-steven game of chess – an unending round of something that looks like shadowboxing, though between love and death, which is the shadow? “Everyone admires us for our courage,” says one man. “They have no idea what they’re talking about.”“Courage requires options,” the man adds.“There are options,” says a woman with a thick suede headband. “You could give up. You could fall apart.”“No you can’t. Nobody does. I’ve never seen it,” says the man. “Well, not really fall apart.

Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it.

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

Practice bravery every day and the self-worth will come.

May you have the courage to conquer any circumstance.

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

Every great day has a story and a song!

When you have nothing left, you don’t have anything to lose.

YOU have to design your own Price tag for the world.

The most important experiences of a man are those which take him to his or her limit.To learn beyond that, one needs to accumulate all the courage and expand his limits.Sex, pain and love are all extreme experiences. Dreaming big is another such extreme experience.

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.

You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

Some won't stay but thank them for stopping by.

Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.

Whenever you hear yourself or others telling you you cannot do something, do that particular something, and notice how quickly everyone shuts the hell up.

You need time, perseverance, and patience to develop the character and abilities required for success.

A task is only difficulty, when we not find the best strategy to get it done.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

Whatever your faith prompts you to do, begin now.

To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!

I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.

Good people turn to love, courage and kindness in times of crisis, not hate, fear and cruelty.

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

You might just be the craziest person I've ever know, but you're also the bravest. - Marcus

Your mind, it will trick you but your heart, it will not.

Better to sink with tempests raging o'erMasts all dismantled and hull gaping wideThan rest and rot on some unclouded shoreThe idle plaything of the listless tide.Better the grime of battle on the brow,With grim defeat to crush thy dying handThan through long years of peace to tyrant bowOr dwell captive in a strangers land.Better the castle with beleaguered gate,By battle's lightning shivered in a dayThan peaceful walls in pomp of sullen state,Through centuries sinking to a dull decay.Better resolve to win thy heart's desire,And striving bravely, die in the endeavorThan have the embers of some smothered fireLie smouldering in thy saddened soul forever.

Boldly and confidently, reach out to your dreams.

She said fear is just a flashlight that helps you find your courage.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

To challenge yourself takes courage, not for the strength it takes to accomplish your goals but for the commitment to stay true to your dreams.

The worst disability in life is a bad attitude.

It is only the brave who win life’s rewards. Those who don’t overcome their fears are destined to fail at even the least things.

I will find a way -- or make one.

Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or another. But the hard parts will be your parts, they won’t be hard parts other people have imposed on you for their own reasons, or maybe for no reason at all. And your ownership of them – your responsibility to and for them – makes all the difference in the world.

I Am ! Two powerful words.... You must confess... I Am who God called me to be. I Am a Success. I Am not what you think of me. I Am more than a conqueror. I Am walking by Faith. I Am a Gift.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

Dear fear, I’m divorcing you. Dear courage, I’m courting you. Dear hope, I’m pursuing you. Dear love, I’m marrying you.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them more strength to relate to people than to dominate them more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit not in muscles and an immature mind.

You can’t be the warrior in someone else’s tragedy

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

We find ourselves in the pursuit of our dreams.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

Awake my great strength.

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.

To open eyes when others close themTo hear when others do not wish to listenTo look when others turn awayTo seek to understand when others give upTo rouse oneself when others acceptTo continue to struggle when one is not the strongestTo cry out when others keep silent…

Respect is reverence out of love, Fear is reverence out of hate.Choose Wisely

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

Courage to dare is the strength to endure.

Show up, shine and do the damn thing!

When you are stressed and challenged by hardships just smile through it as frowning won’t help in changing the situation