Quotes About Courage

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.

When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, But words can never harm me.

You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.

Anxiety never yet successfully bridged any chasm.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.

Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Anything other than death is a minor injury.

If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.

The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

William H. Thomes