Quotes About Courage

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

Action is the antidote to despair.

How, then, find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

Fear that man who fears not God.

He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

If God be for us, who can be against us?

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!

Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise, one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor.

So long as I believe I have to do certain things, I will just go right ahead. That's how I run my life.

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly.

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.

Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .

A great ship asks deep water.

Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Happiness hates the timid!

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.