Quotes About Courage

If you pass life by it's jolly well going to pass you by in the future. If you're frightened it's all right--that's no harm; fear is an emotion.

He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Are Indians cowards? No, but they are bad starters and occasionally jib. Fear is everywhere; the British Raj rests on it.

There was simply the sense that she had found wings, and meant to use them.

I have myself to face a world which is tragic without becoming tragic myself.

beacon in the roaring tides of darkness.

There are such violets in England, but not so many. Nor are there so many in Art, for no painter has the courage.

Nothing is impossible. The word actually says it itself: "I'm possible!" --Sherill Harvey (from Pinterest)

It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.

A man who is strong and tough never needs to show it in his dress or the way he cuts his hair. Toughness is a quality of the mind, like bravery or honesty or ambition; it has nothing whatever to do with muscles.

It was Raffles I loved. It was not the dark life we led together, still less its base rewards; it was the man himself, his gayety, his humor, his dazzling audacity, his incomparable courage and resource. And a very horror of turning to him again in mere need of greed set the seal on my first angry resolution. But the anger was soon gone out of me, and when at length Raffles bridged the gap by coming to me, I rose to greet him almost with a shout.

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice... it is conformity.

One, you will become what you think about. Two, remember the word imagination. Let your mind soar. Three, courage. Concentrate on your goal everyday. Four, save 10 percent of what you earn and action. Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.

There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard.

Dr. Frankl also wrote, "Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of." Even if it only comes true in the imagination, we must experience the tortures of that which we fear—tortures that are, as often as not, worse than those that might actually come to pass in our lives. It's why the old line "A coward dies a thousand deaths; a brave man dies but once" is really true.

worth any price. You will become what you think about. Remember the word "imagination," and let your mind begin to soar. Courage—concentrate on your goal every day. Save 10 percent of what you earn. Action—ideas are worthless unless we act on them.