Quotes about Courage

Life isn't much more than a big dig through layers of doubt and fear into new levels of power and potential.

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

One, you will become what you think about. Two, remember the word imagination. Let your mind soar. Three, courage. Concentrate on your goal everyday. Four, save 10 percent of what you earn and action. Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.

We live by faith or we do not live at all. Either we venture or we vegetate. If we venture, we do so by faith, simply because we cannot know the end of anything at its beginning. We risk marriage on faith or we stay single. We prepare for a profession by faith or we give up before we start. By faith, we move mountains of opposition or we're stopped by molehills.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

90 percent of heart patients who are told to change their lifestyle habits or die, choose death over change.

People so often look with longing into a daydream future, while ignoring the importance of the present. We are all in danger of thinking, "Some day I shall be fulfilled. Some day I shall have the courage to start another life which will develop my talent," without ever considering the very practical use of that talent today in a way which will enrich other people's lives, develop the talent, and express the fact of being a creative creature.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.