Quotes about Courage

Never give in to a feeling of despair, fear, or defeat. Lead your negative emotion. Never allow those emotions to lead you. Always lead them by quickly moving in the opposite direction those emotions insist you should go!

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

Lord, help us to see trouble coming long before it gets here. And give us the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.

Simply recognizing the need for change does not define leadership. The leader is the one who has the courage to act on what he sees…A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act on what he sees, to speak up when everyone else is silent.

The minute you decide to get back in the business the church was commissioned for in the first place, you will pray for boldness.

The leader is the one who has the courage to act on what he sees.

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately.

Courage establishes leadership.

For this reason it is the dark that provides the leader with his greatest opportunities. It is your response to the dark that determines in large part whether or not you will be called on to lead. For the darkness is what keeps the average person from stepping outside the security of what has always been.

Leaders are not always the first to see an opportunity. They are simply the first to seize an opportunity. It is the person who seizes the opportunity who emerges as the leader. But fear has kept many would-be leaders on the sidelines, while good opportunities paraded by. They didn't lack insight. They lacked courage.

Leaders are not always the first to see the need for change, but they are the first to act. And once they move away from the pack, they are positioned to lead.

You can't lead without taking risk. You won't take risk without courage. Courage is essential to leadership.