We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one’s inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
You can’t test courage cautiously.
From caring comes courage.
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
I think my mother… made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
It’s a courageous thing to do something that doesn’t have rules or limits.
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
