Courage Quotes - Page 31

Thank you for the pain. At least I am no longer afraid to face it next time.

Character is what the world needs - character that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say “some other time, pal!

Smile and Slay.You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.

Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.

Occasionally all you need is a minute of courage to break into a world of opportunity.

A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

May you find the courage to be grateful for every circumstance.

Its not your fault for not being there.Its my fault for thinking you would be

There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone's life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a nurse break dancing at the hospital's Christmas party.

The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.

Children are the most fearless souls on earth.

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it.

All men would be cowards if they durst.

With courage, always go where you fear to go.

The difference between failure and survival is that coping skill you used in between the struggles.

The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.

In these times where it has seemed dark indeedwhere integrity appears solely buried in legend and lore, it is an opportunity in contrast to the shadows, to create miracles...by choosing first courage, then diligence, standing, opening our mouth and speaking the truth that in rare moments, may ignite the light.

A counterfeit can never be a substitute for the real thing

It's tougher to look than to leap.

God has not given us the spirit of fear. So imagine where your fear coming from. It's from somewhere else!

If you see success as a race, then you will start eagerly with enthusiasm and passion with the hope of finishing quickly but there is much more to your success journey than your duration and speed.

Bravery hides in amazing places.

Don’t desire kindness but desire courage so that you may persist on the right path.

As long as your work remains unwritten in your head, it has no effect on anyone. Except you. And not in a good way. Once you let your idea out of the hermetically sealed vault of your brain and out into the fresh air, it will immediately start to evolve. The minute you get it down on a piece of paper, it will change.And once you let it out of the house — once someone else gets to experience it — everything is changed.You are changed. The project is changed. The audience is changed.That’s the alchemy of art.

Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.

You are Timeless Being and Awareness...You are not touched by any of this.

There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

---Sleeps through the washes of the morning's colors and the warm brilliance of sunrise. She sleeps in a world where she remembers, perfectly, every detail about her husband, this day, that sentence, another touch. She will remember it all in the deepest sleep, and lose it again the moment her eyes open and she wonders how late it must be for the sun to already be so high and then remembers, in the next instant, what happened the day before.

You have already lost if you are always fearful of losing everything.

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life.

You must choose to risk what you fear to lose to gain everything you desire

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Act and opportunities will manifest. There is no such thing as luck. There is only causality. Are you strong enough to cause something to happen – that’s the question.

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.The secret is in action - here and now.It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself.Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect- whatever your idea of perfection may be.All you need is courage.

Whatever strength, courage... madness keeps us going, we find it, in times like these. You have it, soldier. It's what kept you alive all this time.

Don't fear to take a daring action. It is truest act to your destiny.

You can continue to cry over the same pain & complain about the same situations or you can expand your mind and you can grow. Maybe im not alone when I say, sometimes we all get a little confused and feel like we owe it to the people and places to try harder when in reality, most of the time lessons become lifelong if we don't learn the art of peaceful detachment early in the game.

I believe in you my friend, so much so, that if any of my ideas make you feel belittled in any manner, I want you to rise against me and throw my work into the fire. Any notion, any book, any institution that weakens the self instead of strengthening it, must be discarded at ones.

I am not afraid I was born to do this.

Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words.

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

There's no magic potion to remove you from a tough situation than your own self conviction and no poison as dangerous as self doubt. In no one has done it so far, you could be the one showing the way!

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

Ultimately, having what we want is our liability. It is no one else’s. Purge the blame game. Everyone has a legitimate reason why they CAN’T get something done. It’s the will to get it done REGARDLESS.

Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination.

Pats cīnies, palīdz, domā, spried un sver,Pats esi kungs, pats laimei – durvis ver!

Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?

Inside me, there is an organ more important than my heart. Although you can't see it, I feel it going right through my head and down to my legs, and I know that it exists inside me. It's the one that lets me stand up and walk forward. So that I can walk forward, without ever trembling. If I stopped here I feel like it would break...My soul would break. Even more than if my heart stops beating, to me that is the most important. Even if I become senile and my back gets bent, I still have to walk forward.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.