C Quotes
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“Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.”
“Courage has the hands to help you fight your fears.”
“Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.”
“Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame but you will never ever stop me from loving those who mock me, from loving those that hate me, from loving those who don't forgive me, from loving the cynics, from loving the darkness so much that I myself through my small acts of consistent unyielding love may bring on the light.”
“Courage he acquires by learning to fear the still more dreadful.”
Source: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
“Courage.
Hope.
Sacrifice.”
Source: The Throne of Fire
“Courage, horse!” he cried.
“I’m not bothered,” said the horse. “I’ve been with you for so long I doubt if I shall despair either.”
Source: Dark Castle, White Horse
“Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.”
Source: Queen of Fire
“Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.”
Source: The Almond Tree
“Courage ignites the joy in the soul.”
Source: The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
“Courage. In any language, the word has a special ring to it, as much, I suspect from the reverent way in which it is spoken as from the actual sounds of the letters. Courage.- Drizzt Do'urden”
“Courage in danger is half the battle.”
“Courage in danger is half the battle.
[Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]”
“Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.”
“Courage, intellect, all the masterful qualities, serve but to make a man more evil if they are merely used for that man’s own advancement, with brutal indifference to the rights of others. It speaks ill for the community if the community worships these qualities and treats their possessors as heroes regardless of whether the qualities are used rightly or wrongly. It makes no difference as to the precise way in which this sinister efficiency is shown. It makes no difference whether such a man’s force and ability betray themselves in a career of money-maker or politician, soldier or orator, journalist or popular leader. If the man works for evil, then the more successful he is the more he should be despised and condemned by all upright and far-seeing men. To judge a man merely by success is an abhorrent wrong; and if the people at large habitually so judge men, if they grow to condone wickedness because the wicked man triumphs, they show their inability to understand that in the last analysis free institutions rest upon the character of citizenship, and that by such admiration of evil they prove themselves unfit for liberty.”
Source: The Duties of American Citizenship
“Courage is a certainty.”
“Courage is a conscious decision. You do it in a dangerous situation, when you have a choice.”
Source: The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
“Courage is a daring spirit.”
“Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.”
Source: Ethical Ambition
“Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.”
Source: My Fair Godmother
“Courage is a finite resource, it is exhausted by the terrors we face.”
“Courage is a function of process.”
“Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!”
“Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.”
“Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but you’re not supposed to question adults or your coach or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from.”
“Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage.”
“Courage is a kind of salvation.”
Source: Plato's Best Thoughts
“Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown”
“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”
“Courage is a mindset. Fear is a subset.”
Source: The Book Of Your Life
“Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will.”
“Courage is a muscle. It is built over time. Start with small weights. Eventually, you'll move mountains.”
Source: Champion's Planner
“Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.”
“Courage is a mutual thing.”
“Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.”
“Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“Courage is a requirement for facing your fears, doing things differently, and applying any new habits that align with and support your goals.”
Source: The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters
“Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.”
“Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.”
“Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.”
“Courage is a spiritual style.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it”
Source: The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
“Courage is a strong will.”
“Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don’t run away when things are tough. It means you don’t turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion... There’s a lot of people who won’t wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what’s honorable and decent.”
“Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.”
“Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat us & destroy us. But remember that bold women are like cockroaches: step on one & others come running from the corners.”
Source: Inés of My Soul
“Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.”
“Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.”
“Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.”
Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“Courage is act of faith.”