This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

Feel free to suggest additions!


“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Friday, December 12, 2008

Courage Quotes

1. The main quality of leadership...is courage! - Walt Disney

2. Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. - Ruth Gordon

3. Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. - Unknown

4. He has not learned the lesson of life who does not everyday surmount a fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller

6. Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball. - Billie Jean King

7. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. - Babe Ruth

8. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

9. Dare to confront what can only be imagined. – Unknown

10. Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. - David Lloyd George

11. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

12. So long as man’s courage endures he will conquer; upon the courage in his heart all things depend. - H.G. Wells

13. True courage is to do without witnesses everything that one is capable of doing before all the world. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

14. It isn’t life that matters, it’s the courage you bring to it. - Sir Hugh Walpole

15. Fortune favors the brave. – Terence

16. May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say no, courage to say yes, for courage counts. - Thomas S. Monson

17. We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. - Maxwell Maltz

18. God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

19. Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. - Earl Wilson

20. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

21. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Sir Winston Churchill

22. Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying,"I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher

23. Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. - Eleanor Roosevelt

25. As I contemplate all that you face in the world today, one word comes to my mind. It describes an attribute needed by all of us but one which you—at this time of your life and in this world–will need particularly. That attribute is courage. - Thomas S. Monson

26. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. - Tom Krause

27. ‎You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience where you stop to look fear in the face and say....'I lived through this. I can take the next thing that comes along.'" - Unknown

28. Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. - C. S. Lewis

29. The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. - Corra Harris

30. There is no such thing as bravery, only degrees of fear. - John Wainwright

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

32. All serious daring starts from within. - Eudora Welty

33. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt

34. It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. - E.E. Cummings

35. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca

36. Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill your purpose. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams. - Gurumayi

37. It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

38. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit homeand think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie

39. Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones, and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. - Victor Hugo

40. Fate loves the fearless. - James Russell Lowell

41. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. - Clare Booth Luce

42. He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all. - Miguel de Cervantes

43. Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. - Ruth E. Renkel

44. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson

45. The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

46. Many of our fears are tissue paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them. - Brendan Francis

47. Courage is being scared to death....and saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

48. One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson

49. Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

50. We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring. - Georges Jacque Danton

51. Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. - Earl Wilson

52. There is no such thing as bravery, only degrees of fear. - John Wainwright

53. What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? - Logan Smith

54. Nothing will come of nothing; we must dare mighty things. - William Shakespeare

55. What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? - Logan Pearsall Smith

56. A brave arm makes a short sword long. - Unknown

57. I like the man who faces what he must, with steps triumphant and a heart of cheer, who fights the daily battle without fear. - Sarah Knowles Bolton

58. Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency. - Maya Angelou

59Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. - Joseph Smith

60. Courage is…the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis 

61. If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. - David Viscott

62. Courage changes things for the better. With courage, you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three, or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped. - Earl Nightingale

63. There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. - Orison Swett Marden

64. The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterwards. - Napoleon Hill

65. Many of your fears are tissue-paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them. - Brendan Francis

66. Whenever we’re afraid, its because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. - Earl Nightingale

67. If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. - Robert H. Schuller

68. Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. - Denis Waitley

69. It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

70. You must have courage, whatever the test, however many times you fall, stand up just once more. - Unknown

71. It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. - Richard M. DeVos

72. We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. - May Sarton

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