Courage is not the absence of
fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than
fear.--Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is not the towering
oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in
the snow.--Alice M. Swaim
Courage is reclaiming your
life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem.
It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to
find another strength, another talent...It is taking yourself to another
level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive,
special...--Catherine Britton
Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear--not absence of fear.--Mark Twain
Courage is the atom of change.--Bettina
R. Flores
Courage is the first of human
qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.--Aristotle
Courage is the ladder on which
all the other virtues mount.--Clare Boothe Luce (in Reader's Digest,
1979)
Courage is the price that life
exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.--Amelia Earhart
Courage is very important.
Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.--Ruth Gordon
Courage is what it takes to
stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and
listen.--Winston Churchill
The courage of life is often a
less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no
less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. People do what
they must--in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and
dangers and pressures--and that is the basis of all human morality.--John
F. Kennedy
Courageous risks are life-giving,
they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you
are.--Joan L. Curcio
Deal honestly and objectively
with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks
of great character.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Discouragement is not the
absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.--Neal A. Maxwell
Do the thing you fear, then
the death of fear is certain.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Do what you fear and fear
disappears.--David Joseph Schwartz
Don't forget to pack your
courage for your journey to greatness.--Dave Weinbaum
Each time a person stands up
for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against
injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other
from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build
a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and
resistance.--Robert F. Kennedy
Everyone has talent. What is
rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.--Erica
Jong
Fear and love can never be
experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these
emotions we want.--Gerald Jampolsky
Fear is that little darkroom
where negatives are developed.--Michael Pritchard
Freedom lies in being bold.--Robert
Frost
The hardest thing you can do
is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy
is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.--Allen
Klein (Quotations to Cheer You Up)
Have courage for the great
sorrows of life and for the small ones; and when you have laboriously
accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.--Unknown
He who is brave is free.--Seneca
A hero is no braver than an
ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I count him braver who
overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest
victory is over self.--Aristotle
I am a writer who came of a
sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all
serious daring starts from within.--Eudora Welty (One Writer's
Beginnings)
I am not afraid of tomorrow,
for I have seen yesterday and I love today.--William Allen White
I am old enough to know that
victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage...
What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that
comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.--Paula
Giddings
I do not ask to walk smooth
paths nor bear an easy load.
I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road.
Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone,
And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.--Gale Brook
Burket
I have not ceased being
fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as
a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown;
and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn
back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.--Erica Jong
If our vocabulary did not
contain the words trouble, adversity, calamity and grief, it could not
contain the words, bravery, patience and self-sacrifice. Those who know no
hardships will know no hardihood. Those who face no calamity will need no
courage. Mysterious though it is, the human characteristics we admire most
grow in a soil with a strong mixture of trouble.--Dale Turner (Seattle
Times 2/1/03)
If you are lucky enough to
find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.--John
Irving
If you listen to your fears,
you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.--Robert
H. Schuller
If you want to see the brave,
look at those who can forgive.--Bahagavad Gita
Is he alone who has courage on
his right hand and faith on his left hand?--Charles Lindbergh
It is not because things are
difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things
are difficult.--Seneca
It isn't for the moment you
are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to
sanity and faith and security.--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It takes courage to grow up
and turn out to be who you really are.--e.e. cummings
It used to take courage--indeed,
it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home
and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are
fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.--Alvaro
de Solva
Keep your fears to yourself,
but share your courage with others.--Robert Louis Stevenson
Kill the snake of doubt in
your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move
out of your way.--Kate Seredy
Let me not pray to be
sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer
it.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to
win my freedom.
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success
alone;
But let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.--Rabindranath Tagore
Life shrinks or expands in
proportion to one's courage.--Anais Nin
Like gaining confidence,
finding one's courage is gradual rather than all at once.--Barbara
Barksdale Clowse
Love is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment,
or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.--Marianne
Williamson
Man cannot discover new oceans
unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.--Andre Gide
Never be afraid to try
something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the
Titanic.--Anonymous
Never forget that life can
only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and
gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an
unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and
lose many a battle.--Annie Besant
Never give in, never, never,
never, never; in nothing, great or small--never give in except to
convictions of honour and good sense.--Winston Churchill
Never grow a wishbone,
daughter, where you backbone ought to be.--Clementine Paddleford
Once you face your fear,
nothing is ever as hard as you think.--Olivia Newton-John
One person with courage makes
a majority.--Andrew Jackson
One man with courage is a
majority.--Thomas Jefferson
The only thing we have to fear
is fear itself.--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Only when we are no longer
afraid do we begin to live…--Dorothy Thompson
The secret of freedom, courage.--Thucydides
Something happens to me when I
witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not
let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a
lifetime. To fill me when I'm empty, and rock me when I'm low.--Holly Near
Take chances, make mistakes.
That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in
order to practice being brave.--Mary Tyler Moore
There are people who put their
dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got
dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to
look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they
never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put
your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am
I?" That's where courage comes in.--Erma Bombeck
To fight fear, act. To
increase fear--wait, put off postpone.--David Joseph Schwartz
To him that waits all things
reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the
darkness, what he has seen in the light.--Coventry Patmore
We are not weak if we make a
proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power..
the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the
active, the brave.--Patrick Henry
We gain strength, and courage,
and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in
the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.--Eleanor Roosevelt
We must build dikes of courage
to hold back the flood of fear.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must have courage to bet on
our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living
requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.--Maxwell
Maltz
What is a minority? The chosen
heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social,
political, or religious priviledge that you enjoy today that was not
bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the
minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral
conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.--John
Bartholomew Gough
What is needed, rather than
running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is
understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly
into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from
it.--Jiddu Krishnamurti
Whatever course you decide
upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are
always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics
are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires
courage.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever your sex or position,
life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the
coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever
the same fair play and admits not foolish distinction. Despair and
postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to
fail.--Henry David Thoreau
When you are in doubt, be
still, and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward in
courage.--White Eagle
Where fear is, happiness is
not.--Seneca
Who bravely dares must
sometimes risk a fall.--Tobias G. Smollett
The world is not perishing for
the want of clever or talented, or well-meaning men. It is perishing for
the want of men of courage and resolution.--Robert J. McCracken
The worst sorrows in life are
not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.--A. C. Benson
You can't be brave if you've
had only wonderful things happen to you.--Mary Tyler Moore
You have to accept whatever
comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and
with the best that you have to give.--Eleanor Roosevelt
You may feel like dwelling on
your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a
squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings
while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.--Marsha Sinetar
You never conquer a mountain.
Mountains can't be conquered; you conquer yourself--your hopes, your fears.--Jim
Whitaker