Quotes About Courage

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

What was said about all of us? We're stupid. You'll never work in a town again. How do you look your four children in the eye? You've sold your soul. You know, it went on and on.

If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.