Courage Quotes

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live

If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

Ayn Rand

I know the consequences, Manon,” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.

Melika Dannese Lux

I shall be in Paris in two days. Well, all is finished. The waves ofhuman mediocrity rise to the sky and they will engulf the refuge whosedams I open. Ah! courage leaves me, my heart breaks! O Lord, pity theChristian who doubts, the sceptic who would believe, the convict oflife embarking alone in the night, under a sky no longer illumined bythe consoling beacons of ancient faith.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

If we know what can happen in a minute will could have avoid all tragedies.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities.When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They’re less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.

rouble creates a capacity to handle it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Trouble like the hill ahead straightens out when you advance upon it.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

William Hazlitt

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Wendell Phillips

The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Vittorio Conte Alfieri

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero

When moral courage feels that it is in the right there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

Jean Paul Richter

Hail Caesar those who are about to die salute thee.

Suetonius

When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.

Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.

Edith Ronald Mirrielees

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.

Louise Nevelson

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.

Elizabeth Goudge

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it can be faced and we can go on to be whole.

Muriel Rukeyser

A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

George. C. Scott

What one has to do usually can be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

William Faulkner

If you have enough fantasies you're ready in the event that something happens.

Sheila Ballantyne

The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

We all carry it within us: supreme strength the fullness of wisdom unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed.

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.

Thomas J. Watson

The spirit of man is an inward flame a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

We have what we seek. It is there all the time and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.

Søren Kierkegaard

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.

Johann von Goethe

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Marcus Aurelius

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

Act and God will act.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Dorothea Brande

What God expects us to attempt He also enables us to achieve.

God gave burdens also shoulders.

Yiddish Proverb

With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides He provides.

Frank N. D. Buchman

The Bible tells us that a sparrow does not fall without God's notice. I know he will help us meet our responsibilities through his guidance.

Michael Cardone

Leap and the net will appear.

Cowards falter but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Queen Elizabeth I

God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.

Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Natalie Clifford Barney

In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Everyone will be taxed according to his means.

J. C. F. von Schiller

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.

Judith M. Knowlton

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

Talmud

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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