Courage Quotes - Page 6

Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

T.S Eliot

Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.

Anonymous

None are so blind as those who will not see.

Anonymous

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Soldiers strike the foe in the face!

Florus

Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man.

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Courage is a quietness not martial music made Born of facing up to life even when afraid.

Emily Sargent Councilman

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!

Horace

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Aesop

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.

Simone de Beauvoir

No blame should attach to telling the truth.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

Suzette Haden Elgin

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Lock

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

William J. H. Boetcker

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

William F. Halsey

The best way out of a problem is through it.

Anonymous

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.

James A. Garfield

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.

Arthur Christopher Benson

As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Frédéric Chopin

Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.

William L. Sullivan

Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.

Horace

Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

Katharine Hepburn

If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.

Molière

With audacity one can undertake anything.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

Preston Bradley

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.

Miguel de Cervantes

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.

Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.

Mary W. Stewart

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many a battle.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.

Ben Ames Williams

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.

Confucius

There were always in me two women at least one woman desperate and bewildered who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene as upon a stage conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses helplessness despair and present to the world only a smile an eagerness curiosity enthusiasm interest.

Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly and [if] there is no situation to face it falls away of its own weight.

Florence Scovel Shinn

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

Plutarch

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Dag Hammarskjöld

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.

Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

Audacity more audacity always audacity.

Georges Jacques Danton

Fortune favors the audacious.

Erasmus

Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.

Livy

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.

Baltasar Gracián

That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.

Ruby Dee

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