Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
God holds with the strong.
this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.
Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.
It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.
Creativity takes courage.
Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
Who would true Valour see, Let him come hither
We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.