Courage Quotes - Page 8

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself.

To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.

Jan Wong

My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

o.henry

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

No one provokes me with impunity (nemo me impune lacessit)

Motto of Scotland

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

Anonymous

Why not is a slogan for an interesting life.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

Miguel de Cervantes

All good fortune is a gift of the gods and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good but by being bold.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Virgil

Chance favors the prepared mind.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

James A. Michener

Get as much experience as you can so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

Luck is the residue of design.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.

Ovid

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule and you will have very little bad luck.

Anonymous

Don't retire, rewire and refire

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes.

Fearlessness can be its own form of power.

Glenn Greenwald

...'you have to ask yourself though, who are we to stop a war?’I sigh, wishing that the glittering pinpricks above us were truly stars. It was rare to see any due to the endless cloud cover. ‘Who are we not to?’ I say, to no one in particular. If we weren’t willing to try, then what did that say about us? I try to ignore the pessimistic voice eating away at my thoughts. Change could start with a few, but real change needed thousands.

When you are not afraid to fail, you will always win.

TemitOpe Ibrahim

Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.

Donna Lynn Hope

Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.

Kimberly Novosel

Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?

There is no such thing as a regrettable act of courage.

Tammy Rosenfeld

I've had an amazing life. One filled with blessings I could never have imagined.Depressed is the last thing I am. Realistic, yes. Sad, never.

You have been so sheltered, Deeta - more even than your sisters. You know nothing of life or of people, in truth I think both scare you. You have little experience of anything but Tom and I and the children. You carved out a little niche for yourself with us, somewhere you were comfortable and safe. With each passing day I have watched you close yourself off from all that is new until it becomes impossible to answer the question of who you are because you do not know yourself. I think you have courage and that you are resourceful, maybe you are brave. But at this moment I see you look at upheaval and adventure with fright in your soul, so that you see only the bad and no good at all.

Girls are like Pokemon, it doesn't matter how good you are, you can't catch any if you don't have any balls.

Auliq-Ice

You must have a strong will and determined spirit to fight any form of oppression.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Take your feet of of the brakes, push the pedal, give yourself the green light and be unstoppable.

Catrice M. Jackson

Be real. Be you and don't you dare apologize for who you are ever again.

Catrice M. Jackson

Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant Southern women have always done.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.

With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.

Juliet Marillier

Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars

Some say they stand on the shoulders of giants. True. But have they ever tried walking like one?

If we always livein constant fearthen we might missthe beauty of the momentright now, right here.

S. Tarr

If you mean your words, people who lust over your lovely ways won't dare to reject you.

Auliq-Ice

Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.

Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.

She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That's the difference between us and the others.

Melina Marchetta

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

Jean-François Beauchemin

Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.

Courtney Schafer

Mechanized warfare still left room for human qualities to play an important part in the issue. ‘Automatic warfare’ cancels them out, except in a passive form. Archidamus is at last being justified. Courage, skill and patriotism become shrinking assets. The most virile nation might not be able to withstand another, inferior to it in all natural qualities, if the latter had some decisively superior technical appliance. (...)The advent of ‘automatic warfare’ should make plain the absurdity of warfare as a means of deciding nations’ claims to superiority. It blows away romantic vapourings about the heroic virtues of war, utilized by aggressive and ambitious leaders to generate a military spirit among their people. They can no longer claim that war is any test of a people’s fitness, or even of its national strength. Science has undermined the foundations of nationalism, at the very time when the spirit of nationalism is most rampant.

B.H. Liddell Hart

People play small for lots of reasons, but at the core of them all is fear. Playing small means playing safe—avoiding risk, failure, criticism, and the list goes on. But just imagine how incredibly different the world would be if everyone committed to playing big—taking on audacious goals, trying to make a meaningful difference, being all they could possibly be.

Your “everybody” probably represents even a smaller proportion of the population than your Rolodex. Psychologists have documented that our typical everybody— to which they refer as the “generalized other”—is usually a collection of about five or six people.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

May you find new strength to accomplish your daily work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.

A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.

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