Quotes about Courage
I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.
— Desmond Tutu
Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
— Teresa of Avila
Be not afraid. God loves you & wants us to love one another as He loves us. As miserable, weak and sinful as we are, He loves us with an infinitely faithful love.
— Mother Teresa
No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.
— Barack Obama
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.
— Evelyn Underhill
Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
The weaker I am, the harder I must lean on God's grace; the harder I lean on him, the stronger I discover him to be, and the bolder my testimony to his grace.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd / Tempering each other in the victor's mind / Alternately proclaim him good and great / And make the hero and the man complete.
— Joseph Addison
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles at the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
— Joseph Addison
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
— Joseph Addison
Cato Lose not a thought on me, I'm out of danger. Heaven will not leave me in the victor's hand. Caesar shall never say, I conquered Cato. But, oh! my friends, your safety fills my heart With anxious thoughts: a thousand secret terrors 115 Rise in my soul: how shall I save my friends! 'Tis now, O Caesar, I begin to fear thee.
— Joseph Addison