Quotes about Courage

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ? Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.