Quotes About Courage

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

What would happen if you let go? You'd have everything you want. But you're afraid. You're afraid if you let go there will be nothing there to catch you and you'll lose control. Yet, you never really had control.

In the midst of the whirlwind, those who stand with God, weather the storm.

We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We see opportunities to testify about Christ, but we avoid them. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

Boldness is the rule, for everything is to be gained, and nothing lost.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

women, brave as stars at dawn

Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.

And there was no Camelot now -- now that no Queen was there, all white and gold, under an oaktree with another sunlight sifting itself in silence on her glory through the dark leaves above her where she sat, smiling at what she feared, and fearing least what most there was to fear.

Anyone who wishes to advance our species or an institution must possess those qualities which those who have little sense of self will perceive as narcissistic. All this besides the fact that "arrogant," "headstrong," "narcissistic," and "cold" will be the terms used against any person who tries to be more himself or herself.

Whether we are considering a toothache, a tumor, a relational bind, a technical problem, crime, or the economy, most individuals and most social systems, irrespective of their culture, gender, or ethnic background, will "naturally" choose or revert to chronic conditions of bearable pain rather than face the temporarily more intense anguish of acute conditions that are the gateway to becoming free.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Truth cannot be defeated.

Fear attracts attack.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

A man to match the mountains and the sea.

For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.

Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God's way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life's battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.

Further, if we are honest, nearly all of us who have hair on our chins or the prospect of it must admit to a built-in interest in fighting and the implements of fighting.

A risky risk of all risks in the context of rejection and acceptance is expressing and confessing love.

Be within your skin for the protection of yourself from the awkward attacks and repercussions.

Coming out from Yourself is a glorious victory of victories and enlightening knowledge.

Courageless people defeat themselves; no one needs to defeat them.