Quotes About Courage

David Ponder, I say to you now that this is the first time in history that men have fought to set another man free. Most of us Maine boys have never even seen black skin on a man, but if it is true that all men are created equal, then we are fighting for each other. We are fighting because it is the right thing to do." The

My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

We can't stay here." When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act.

Fear no longer has a place in my life. For too long, fear has outweighed my desire to make things better for my family. Never again! I have exposed fear as a vapor, an impostor that never had any power over me in the first place! I do not fear opinion, gossip, or the idle chatter of monkeys, for all are the same to me. I do not fear failure, for in my life, failure is a myth. Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.

Never give in to a feeling of despair, fear, or defeat. Lead your negative emotion. Never allow those emotions to lead you. Always lead them by quickly moving in the opposite direction those emotions insist you should go!

El miedo es un pobre cincel con el que labrar el futuro'".

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

Fight like you're right, listen like you're wrong.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.

Anybody who says he's not scared is either a liar or mentally deficient.

Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.

I'm not going to be pushed around by some Oswald Mosley wannabe with delusions of grandeur.

Narnok rolled his shoulders and tilted his head left, then right, with terrifying cracks of released tension. The two men at his feet were groaning at different pitches, and Narnok stepped over them, testing the weight of the bar and muttering, "Not as good as the axe, but it'll do." He looked up. And grinned. "What's it to be, then? Two at a time or all six at once?

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.

Lord, help us to see trouble coming long before it gets here. And give us the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.

Simply recognizing the need for change does not define leadership. The leader is the one who has the courage to act on what he sees…A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act on what he sees, to speak up when everyone else is silent.

the minute you decide to get back in the business the church was commissioned for in the first place, you will pray for boldness.

The leader is the one who has the courage to act on what he sees.

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately.

In this way, courage establishes leadership.

For this reason it is the dark that provides the leader with his greatest opportunities. It is your response to the dark that determines in large part whether or not you will be called on to lead. For the darkness is what keeps the average person from stepping outside the security of what has always been.

Leaders are not always the first to see an opportunity. They are simply the first to seize an opportunity. It is the person who seizes the opportunity who emerges as the leader. But fear has kept many would-be leaders on the sidelines, while good opportunities paraded by. They didn't lack insight. They lacked courage.