Quotes about Courage

He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

We are very much what others think of us . The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Nothing seemed to hard for God to perform; nothing to great for me to hope for from Him.

We can face whatever circumstances await us with courage if we just reflect on God's faithfulness and place our confidence in His great power and loving purpose for our lives.

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off postpone.

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

25th March, 1873.—Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. I encourage myself in the Lord my God, and go forward.

A large spear from my right lunged past and almost grazed my back, and stuck firmly into the soil. The two men from whom it came appeared in an opening in the forest only ten yards off and bolted, one looking back over his shoulder as he ran. As they are expert with the spear I don't know how it missed, except that he was too sure of his aim and the good hand of God was upon me.