Top 1200 Words Of Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought. I can say that with great confidence. Emptiness is not what we thought. Neither is mindfulness or fear. Compassion––not what we thought. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.

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

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.

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

Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

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

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

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.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans, who had been fashioned in His image, could direct the entire course of their lives with their words, their mouths as the rudder on a ship, as the bridle on a horse. They produced with their words. They destroyed with their words.

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

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

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

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it.

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

One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.

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

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

I want you to understand the words. I want you taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the words are important. But they're only words. You leave them on the paper and you take the thoughts and put them into your mind and then you as an actor recreate them, as if the thoughts had suddenly occurred to you.

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

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

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

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

In the armies and among every ten men there is one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his courage, with words and by example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight.

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 hardest part is writing a song as a story. A song is so short and there are only so many words that every line has to hit. The words have to flow. You can't say certain words that sound weird next to each other, you can't repeat words too much.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can't put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn't be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.

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

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

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

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

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

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

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