Courage Quotes
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When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
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The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.
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People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
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Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
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Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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It takes some courage to say you were wrong.
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The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.
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It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more.
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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.
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My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because he had a black - guy to lunch. So that took a fair amount of courage at the time.
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
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Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.
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That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.
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The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.
