Quotes about Courage

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

Pray if thou canst with hope, but ever pray, though hope be weak or sick with long delay; pray in the darkness if there be no light; and if for any wish thou dare not pray, then pray to God to cast that wish away.

Don't be timid when you pray; rather, batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

No guts, no glory.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.