Courage Quotes - Page 59

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.

Audacity, audacity, always audacity.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

Persevere in thy quest and thou shalt find what thou seekest. Pursue thy aim unswervingly and thou shalt gain victory. Struggle earnestly and thou shalt triumph.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget.

When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be gained, he may say to them, not by subtlety and intrigue; not by wire pulling and demagoguery; not by the arts of popularity; not by skill and shiftiness in following expediency; but by being firm in devotion to the principles of manhood and the application of morals and the courage of righteousness in the public life of our country; by being a man without guile and without fear, without selfishness, and with devotion to duty, devotion to his country.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it, and that he is doing it all wrong and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragement; make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it - and he will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel.

The great home of the soul is the open road.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis.

Without justice, courage is weak.

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.