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Courage Quotes
"Fear of failure is deceptive.Don't do it, you'll fail, it says.Courage is inceptive.It's where success starts."
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"Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won't grow beyond your current self."
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"Singing in a storm silences thunder's threats."
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"I had to test your courage, the stranger said."courage is the quality most essential to understand the Language of the World..."you must not let up, even after having come so far, he continued. "you must love the desert, but never trust it completely. because the desert tests all men: it challenges every step, and kills those who become distracted."
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"Being the best you can be takes courage. You need to own your decisions and have the courage to see them through."
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"And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared."
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"Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow."
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"Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it."
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"You can either be a person who is a coward, afraid, ready to submit, surrender, a person who has himself no dignity, no respect for his own being-or you can be fearless. But then you are going to be a rebel, you cannot avoid that. Either you can be a man of faith or you are going to be a rebellious spirit."
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"In their huge bedroom that night, Tyr said to Thor, "I hope you know what you are doing.""Of course I do," said Thor. But he didn't. He was just doing whatever he felt like doing. That was what Thor did best."
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"Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out."
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"From the beginning, I've told journalists that I planned to write better than any writer of my era who graduated from an Ivy League college. It sounds boastful and it is. But The Citadel taught me that I was a man of courage when I survived that merciless crucible of a four-year test that is the measure of The Citadel experience. I'm the kind of writer I am because of The Citadel."
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"Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for-YOU."
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"Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself."
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"She let the fear burn inside her like fuel, making her voice even stronger."
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"Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist, knows that he must lay himself down and die before morning comes, stole upon him, paling the colour of his eyes, giving him, even in the two minutes of his turn on the terrace, the bleached look of withered old age. Yet he would not die lying down; he would find some crag of rock, and there, his eyes fixed on the storm, trying to the end to pierce the darkness, he would die standing. He would never reach R."
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"Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare."
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"The tree that stands to the tempest is strong; the tree that refuses to bend, the strongest."
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"Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want."
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"We need to develop courage, and we need to develop it in small ways first..... You develop a little courage, so that if you decide, "I will not stay in rooms where women are belittled; I will not stay in company where races, no matter who they are, are belittled; I will not take it; I will not sit around and accept dehumanising other human beings: - if you decide to do that in small ways, and you continue to do it - finally you realize you've got so much courage. Imagine it - you've got so much courage that people want to be around you. They get a feeling that they will be protected in your company."
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"With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure."
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"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
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"Are you going to threaten to kill anyone?" Vega asked dryly.Even though he knew she wasn't being completely serious, the truth was, he would kill someone if they attempted to harm her. "I won't threaten anyone." Which was the truth. If he had to act, he would just kill, not bother with meaningless threats."
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