Courage

 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Sir Winston Churchill

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Alice Mackenzie Swaim

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.

Mexican Proverb

If we should fail – we fail. But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Playwright

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what
it takes to sit down and listen.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Politician

Choose courage instead of letting your fear choose your future for you.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

John Irving

We tend to make courage too dramatic. Courage is often doing something simple, unpleasant, or boring again and again until we get it down pat.

Dave Thomas (1932-2002) American Businessman, Founder of Wendy's International Restaurant Chain

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow”.

Anonymous

Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.

Radmacher

All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Viscott

Choose courage instead of letting your fear choose your future for you.

Melissa Kirk

A great deal of talent is lost in this world for want of a little courage.

Sydney Smith

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

Brendan Francis [Behan] (1923-1964) Irish Author

Don’t be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.

Anonymous

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage. 

Anais Nin

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

Wayne Dyer

Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.

Charles B Newcomb

Making the decision to have a child – it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean Luc Godard

Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery... It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man.

Passage from Life of Christ

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Buckminster Fuller

Hear me, four quarters of the world – a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

Black Elk

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Respond to every call that excites your Spirit.

Rumi

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Roman Rollard

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.

Jack Dempsey