Top 1200 Personal Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

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

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

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

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

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.

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

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

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

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

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

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

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

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

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.

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

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

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

The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

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

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.

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.

The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.

It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina.

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

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

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.

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.

Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.