Courage Quotes - Page 52

If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.

To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.

If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course in the United States... In that same spirit, we must have the courage - and teach our students the courage - to be bearers to the world of this transforming love, co-creators of a more deeply human world, collaborators with Christ in the building of God's Kingdom.

You know, most men would get discouraged by now. Fortunately for you, I am not most men!

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.

Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!

In the four decades of philanthropy that have paralleled my business career, I've found that the same principles apply whether you're providing access to capital to grow a business, creating a new paradigm for medical research, or pioneering innovative approaches to education: Empower the most talented people in each field and encourage them to pursue their passions.

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something