Top 1200 True Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.

What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . . "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.

I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

Courage isn’t a feeling that you wait for. Courage is doing when you don’t have courage. Courage is doing it scared.

All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

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.

Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?

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

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

To be true to one's self is the ultimate test in life. To have courage and the sensitivity to follow your hidden dreams and stand tall against the odds that are bound to fall in your path. Life is too short and precious to be dealt with in any other fashion. This thought I hold dear to my heart and I always try to be true to myself and others that I encounter along the way.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out to slay the dragon, to kill. It's a courage that's born out of fear, anger, and hate. But there's this other kind of courage. It's the courage to risk your life, not in war, not in battle, not out of fear ... but out of love and a sense of injustice that has to be challenged. It takes far more courage to challenge unjust authority without violence than it takes to kill all the monsters in all the stories told to children about the meaning of bravery.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

My earnest prayer is that you will have the courage required to refrain from judging others, the courage to be chaste and virtuous, and the courage to stand firm for truth and righteousness. As you do so, you will be ‘an example of the believers’ (1 Timothy 4:12), and your life will be filled with love and peace and joy.

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the outward forms whatever happens, even if God really is not there. But the opposite ought to be true of us, so that people can see that we demand the truth of what is there and that we are not dealing merely with platitudes. In other words, it should be understood that we take this question of truth and personality so seriously that if God were not there we would be among the first of those who had the courage to step out of the queue.

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.

Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.

Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in.

[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

I wish I hadn't worked so hard; I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me; I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings; I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends; and I wish I had let myself be happier. It's an extraordinary list of getting in your own way, isn't it?

There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.

Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes.' Decisions do determine destiny. The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.