Quotes About Courage

As the historian Robert Gildea has noted, "After the war, those who had done least in the resistance often spoke the most, while those who had done the most spoke the least.

What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on.

I put my chin up and tried to stiffen my upper lip, but found I didn't seem to have any muscles in it.

I learned that 'confession' doesn't ease the soul, but challenges it

Lynne Reid Banks

Courage in an artist or writer is different from the courage of firefighters, who rescue people and risk their own lives. Artistic courage might be conceptualized as an internal drama about overcoming rules or inhibitions, dicta of all kinds, the art a manifestation or result of a multitude of processes.

asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to learn to solve. I asked for prosperity and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love and God gave me people to help. I asked for favours and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.

We can transform our fear and anxiety into commitment and action. That transformation is what interrupts and heals the fear, and it moves the dial on what is causing it.

Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage." "Courage?" he asked with confusion. "Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet.

We must speak with honor in the midst of being dishonored. We must speak with peace in the midst of being threatened. We must speak of good things in the midst of a bad situation. We must be obedient to, trust, and believe God and let Him boss around our contrary feelings.

Find that courageous yes. Fight for that confident no.

Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.

Hope is the melody of the future. Faith is dancing to that melody right now.

Weak moments don't make weak faith. Weak moments make us even more aware of our need to press in to faith.

Hoping doesn't mean I put myself in harm's way. It doesn't mean I ignore reality. No, hoping means I acknowledge reality in the very same breath that I acknowledge God's sovereignty.

When the world beats you down, open up your Bible.

Yes, Lord. I want Your patience to invade my desire to fly off the handle." "Yes, Lord. I want Your perspective to keep my emotions in check." "Yes, Lord. I want Your provision so things don't seem so overwhelming." "Yes, Lord. I want Your courage to do what I feel You calling me to do." "Yes, Lord. I want and need more of You in every moment.

Relationships often die not because of conversations that were had but rather conversations that were needed but never had.

Sometimes it's easier to overcome a fall and a break than the fear of failure.

do. "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

God isn't afraid of your sharp edges that may seem quite risky to others. He doesn't pull back. He pulls you close. His love and grace covers your exposed grief. And step-by-step leads you to a new place of victory. A sweet place your soul is so glad to be in though you never would have chosen the hard path on your own.

No need to bend under the weight of past mistakes. That kind of bending breaks us.

How many times have I claimed to be a woman of faith but rarely lived a life requiring faith?

Write there. In the weak spot of impossibility.