Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.
Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
I had to find the courage to turn my life around.
Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindedness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.
Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.