Top 1200 Bravery And Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.

There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

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

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.

Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy running rampant in your beautiful self, even if you know its root. Whenever you're afraid, invoke courage to transform fear, the formula for freedom.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

A bullfighter must have courage, skill, and grace. And of these courage is the most important.

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

I have a good black friend who is a doctor, but he didn't become a doctor because he saw other black men who were doctors. He became a doctor because his mother cleaned office buildings at night, and because she loved her children. She grew bowlegged from cleaning office buildings at night, and in the process she taught him something about courage and bravery and dedication to others.

What you're gonna hear Jim Harbaugh say, many in this country are getting their backs up filled with rage and anger and disbelief, and they are threatened by this. Harbaugh believes in toughness in men, he believes in toughness in America, he believes in toughness in American men. You damn well want it in your Special Forces, gang. You want it with the Navy SEALs. You want it all over the United States military. You want manliness, you want toughness, you want bravery, you want courage.

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It takes a lot of courage to stay in power, but I am pledging to you to have the courage to continue moving forward.

It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage.

Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.