Courage Quotes

Your life must be woven around the Eucharist. Direct your eyes to Him, who is the Light; bring your hearts very close to His Divine Heart; ask Him for the grace to know Him, for the charity to love Him, for the courage to serve Him. Seek Him longingly.

Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.

It matters little that you are afraid if you manage to hide it. You are then at the edge of courage.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Everybody loses the thing that made them. It’s even how it’s supposed to be in nature. The brave men stay and watch it happen. They don’t run.

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. ‘Do your worst, for I will do mine!’ Then the fates will know you as we know you” –

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else."

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

Those willing to get wet will rise high and dry.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good.'

He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Adam helped me find the courage to make a leap of faith, to leave behind everything I knew and start over, guided by nothing more than a passion for something...He had a kind of comical inability to understand why you wouldn't follow your dreams if you knew what they were. I mean, look -- all he wanted to do was make music, and he did that and it all worked out for him just fine.

It is not power that corrupts, but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.

Courage is… When you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” -