Top 1200 Courage And Perseverance Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

Fear is essential for courage.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Courage is always rewarded.

You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.

Courage breeds leadership.

My courage does not depend on the weather.

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

Any dream is possible, if you have courage.

Acting takes courage.

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

You can't test courage cautiously.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues.

Courage is knowing what to fear.

Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Courage is not a matter of gender.

Anger is a prelude to courage.

Courage is the birthplace of confidence.

When I retired from the championships in 2012, I had finished in fourth place in the international division, second place in nationals, and first in our state three years in a row. This journey not only helped me overcome my fears, it taught me discipline and perseverance. The biggest medals were the friendships that I still enjoy today.

Courage is action, not talk.

Courage is its own reward.

It is to live that requires courage, not to die.

The only security is courage.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Work on something that matters. Have courage.

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Wine fills the heart with courage.

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

Courage is essential to leadership.

In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.

The man with courage is a majority.

Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want

Have enough courage to love.

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

We must substitute courage for caution.

If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he's never counted.

I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

...at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.

It needs courage to be afraid.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.

Courage is the lifeblood of democracy.

Freedom is a system based on courage.