Quotes About Courage

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything," said Henry Ward Beecher.

Remember, above all, that the key to any crisis situation is you.

Jesus expressed the same thought when he told us not to hide our light under a bushel, but to let our light shine "so that your Father may be glorified." I cannot believe that it brings any glory to God when his children go around with hangdog expressions, being miserable, afraid to lift up their heads and "be somebody.

I have found that an easy-to-remember picture of the successful personality is contained in the letters of the word "success" itself. The success-type personality is composed of: Sense of direction Understanding Courage Compassion Esteem Self-Confidence Self-Acceptance

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. —Elbert Hubbard

You must daily have the courage to risk making mistakes, risk failure, risk being humiliated. A step in the wrong direction is better than staying 'on the spot' all your life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, standing still.

I have discovered that much nervousness and anxiety is caused by mentally trying to escape or run away from something that you have decided to go through with physically. If the decision is made to go through with physically. If the decision is made to go through with it—not to run away physically—why mentally keep considering or hoping for escape.

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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

You may not control all of the events that happen to you but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go."

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

There were times when it was said that I had more determination than talent. This may be said of many. It may also be said that life loves the person who dares to live it.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.