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Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.
Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.
Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.
Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
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.
There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.
As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.
Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.
Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.