Top 1200 Courage Strength Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.

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.

There is within you, waiting to be called, a great source of power called courage. Call its name and it will give you the strength to confront challenges despite fear and to continue and the heart to continue with bold confidence despite the pain of caused by tragedy.

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

Being a strongman is a real test of functional strength. What can you pick up, carry and how fast can you move it. It's not a weight room strength, it takes brute strength and power to lift, carry and pull all types objects from fire engines, Mack trucks, transport planes and large stones.

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

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

Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.

I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see tomorrow. I’m no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.

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

People say, 'Where do you get your strength from?' Well, where does an ape get his strength from? They are 20 times stronger than humans, and they don't rely on a meat-based diet. They eat plants all day long. It's a myth that you need meat for strength.

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

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

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

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

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

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.

Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

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.

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.

The men and women of the American military have the courage to follow orders. They deserve a commander-in-chief with the courage to give them.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

When you truly have the courage to dream, you have the courage to act as well.

I like squats because they help build that foundation of strength. I do tons of single-leg moves for strength and balance because they let you test your strength in one leg at a time. But even on my leg days, I make sure to fit in some core work.

Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority.

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction.

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

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

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

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

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.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than weakness. It is power to do nothing. It is the strength that holds strength in check. It is the strength that prevents the blundering activity which is entirely false and will make true activity impossible when the definite command comes.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

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

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

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.