Quotes about Courage
When captured and brought to trial, many of those who had taken part in the Sabbath resolutely refused, even under torture, even at the stake, to abjure the religion which had brought them so much happiness.
— Aldous Huxley
As recently as a week ago, in the Director's office, he had imagined himself courageously resisting, stoically accepting suffering without a word. The Director's threats had actually elated him, made him feel larger than life.
— Aldous Huxley
Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.
— Donald Trump
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
— Dorothy Day
opportunities are always lost when we let fear overrule our faith
— Charles Stanley
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
— Robert Schuller
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
— Dr. Seuss
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
— Dr. Seuss
If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.
— Dr. Seuss