Quotes About Courage

Physical courage is the type involved in overcoming the fear of physical injury or death in order to save others or oneself. Moral courage entails maintaining ethical integrity or authenticity at the risk of losing friends, employment, privacy, or prestige. Psychological courage includes that sort required to confront a debilitating illness or destructive habit or situation; it is the bravery inherent in facing one's inner demons.

Most nice people know what is bad in this world, and they feel horrible for those who are wounded and broken. But they don't have the guts to act in any meaningful way.

In the Bible, nearly each time the virtue of courage appears (about twenty-five times), it is often in conjunction with the words strong or strength. The two are intertwined throughout the Bible and throughout society, so much so that the word courage in sign language is two clenched fists.

Courage without conscience," wrote Robert Green Ingersoll, "is a wild beast.

Jesus had a forceful and firm side. If he knew he was doing God's will, he didn't care if his words or actions made people mad.

Absorb blows with equanimity. That's what anthropologist David Gilmore says is at the heart of being male, and man, does that take courage. It means we defend others without giving into hatred, disdain, or contempt. And it means that we defend our own God-given value and importance without succumbing to an eye-for-an-eye or tooth-for-a-tooth. We don't seek revenge even when we easily can.

As courageous Christian men, we're going to suffer. There's no way around it, because suffering is choosing difficulty when you could escape it. To be male is to stand in gaps you could flee, but if you did, others would be more than hurt. They would be harmed. And when we become Gap People, a goal of Promise Keepers, we move away from nice and into the good.

Theodore Roosevelt saw in the Christian men of his day, who "were very nice, very refined, who shook their heads over political corruption and discussed it in drawing rooms and parlors, but who were wholly unable to grapple with real men in real life.

And we finally come to a more mature place in our faith and realize what Bonhoeffer knew: "Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will." We

You no longer have to deny your own needs and opinions to earn the love and approval of others. You don't ever have to again accept physical abuse, manipulation, sexual or financial exploitation, or keep unwanted secrets because you have no other choice. You have survived

fear and shame don't own him.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson

we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. Seneca

what we call valorous niceness is often cowardly and sinful passivity in disguise.

Look for women who speak the truth in love, laugh easily at themselves, talk openly about their faith, are trailblazers in their own lives, and can both celebrate and cry with other people. You are looking for Balcony Women: women who will cheer you on and give you courage and confidence by hanging over the railing of your life, declaring, "I believe in you! You can do it!

Wherever you feel the most insecure and fearful is probably where you're being the most passive.

If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

God loves a spirited woman who does more than sit with her hands folded as the world crumbles.

At the root of all war is fear: not so much the fear men have of one another as the fear they have of everything," Merton declared.

It takes confidence to throw work away. You have to be able to think, there's more where that came from.

Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for you but even harder for him.

I'm asking you to tap into another set of feelings—understanding and compassion for people of color; outrage at injustice; courage, passion, and commitment to building a democratic, multicultural, and just society. Concentrate on what it is we can do, how we can make a difference.

A lawyer who's afraid of jail is like a surgeon who's afraid of blood.

When the people decide to live, Destiny will obey, Darkness will disappear And chains will be broken.