Courage Quotes - Page 53

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.

Never 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.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

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.

Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.