Best courage & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

Author:Aristotle

“We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.”

Firsts Hard Wisdom Hate Causes Common Support Courage Knowing Wise Lessons Seeking Common Sense Abandon Being Wise Forsake

Author:Philip Gulley

“Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.”

Firsts Courage Worst Talent Rate Dull Cowardice Schemes

Book:The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

Source: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.”

Inspirational Firsts Motivational Courage Greater Confidence Kissing Dating Funny Inspirational Acts Of Courage

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.”

Firsts Children Steps Courage First Time First Steps Bike Small Things Earthquakes Sidewalk Wallowing

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“The first mark of valor is defence.”

Firsts Courage Mark Defence Valor

Author:Philip Sidney

“This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings in the biggest possible context, in such a way that is going to compel us to finally transcend our self-concern. We need to find the heart to come together in such a way that will enable us to face the challenges before us. And to do this, we need a new spirituality. We need a new enlightenment.”

Way Needs Firsts Heart Self Together Faces Spiritual Spirituality Challenges Courage Century Enlightenment Concern Twenties Yearning

Author:Andrew Cohen

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”

Inspirational Firsts Believe Whole Motivational Faith Belief Fear Change Inspiring Steps Courage Positive Kings Optimism Bravery Patience Gods Will Recovery Civil Rights African American Hard Times Have Faith First Steps Faith In God Encouraging Not Giving Up Civil Rights Movement Christian Faith Next Steps Steps Forward Words Of Encouragement Blind Faith Hope And Faith Keep The Faith Leap Of Faith Great Faith I Love Life Staircases Black History Month Inspirational Faith Religion I Have A Dream Speech Kings Speech Change And Growth Kings And Love Faith In Jesus Good Kings Kwanzaa Live Love Walk By Faith Inspirational Recovery Love Life Inspirational Positivity And Optimism Seeing Is Believing Have A Little Faith African American Civil Rights Faith Trust Live Love Life Civil Rights Leaders Fear And Faith Trust And Faith Spiritual Faith Faith And Patience Infinite Hope Faith And Family Keep Your Faith Relying On God Strength And Faith

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.”

“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

Life Inspirational Firsts Politics President Change Courage Planets Thousand Hundred Lifetime Finished Presidential New Beginnings Foresight New Year New Start

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.”

Firsts Long Form Known Morning Courage Seeking Betrayal Coward Abandoned Truthfulness Constancy Steadfastness All The Pretty Horses

Book:All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.”

Inspirational Firsts Looks Ideas Courage Crazy Manifestation New Ideas Original Ideas

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.”

Firsts Littles Persons Moments Moving Certain Order Courses Courage Keys Exciting Breaths Lifetime Moving Forward This Life Muscles Courageous Leap Deep Breath Exciting Things

Author:John Patrick Shanley

“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”

“The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.”

Firsts Accepting Courage Keys Developing Inevitable Courage To Change Change Is Inevitable

Author:Wallace Nesbitt

“And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage... Second, were we truly men of judgment... Third, were we truly men of integrity... Finally, were we truly men of dedication?-”

Men Firsts States Truth Success Answers Responsibility Courage Four Failure Integrity Office Judgment Thirds Court Dedication Fulfilled Success Or Failure Man Of Integrity

Author:John F. Kennedy

“This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.”

Way Firsts Helping Law Next Common Principles Courage Events Duty Standing Thirds Occasions Firm Faithful Trust In God Being Faithful Stand Firm

Book:Self-culture, lectures

Source: Self-culture, lectures

“A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.”

Knows Firsts Happens Christian Courage Please Foundation Stoicism Fortitude

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.”

Firsts School Law Courage Practicals Strongest Camps

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.”

Men Firsts Past Young Fighting Morning Courage Flower Intellect Tyranny Grandmother Courageous Thinker Offering Superstitions Attacking Free Thinkers Courageous Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.”

Men Should Firsts Courage Spots Courageous Cheese Survived Tablets Courageous Man Stilton

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.”

Firsts Wisdom Would Be Passion Courage Influence Intelligence Superiors External Influences

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

“All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.”

Ifs Firsts Black Courage Player Hero Basketball Majors Baseball This Day Baseball Player Jackie Competitiveness

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“The first of all qualities of a general is courage.”

Firsts Quality Courage

Book:1776

Source: 1776

“Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.”

Inspirational Firsts May Two Light Hours Quality Courage Intellect Indispensable Inner Light Darkest Hour

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.”

Inspirational Firsts War Quality Courage Strength All Things Warrior Don't Give Up Spiritual Warrior

Book:On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war

Source: On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war

“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.”

Men Love Inspirational Firsts Wisdom Funny Success Interest Courage Overcoming Difficulty Philosophical Superiors Superior Man

Author:Confucius

“Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.”

Men Way Firsts Faces Nations Talking Courage Sacrifice He Man Honor Men And Women Let Me Grateful Threat Harm Vulnerability Uniforms September Behalf September 11

Author:Zach Wamp

“But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.”

Firsts Long Steps Courage Taken Risk Live Life Necks First Steps Long Ago Worth Living Risking Your Life

Book:Within My Heart (Timber Ridge Reflections Book #3)

Source: Within My Heart (Timber Ridge Reflections Book #3)

“The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.”

Firsts Looks Shows Lasts Difficult Courage Willing Weakness Vulnerability Daring Difficult Things

Author:Brené Brown

“They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.”

Firsts Practice Courage First Time Horse Harness

Author:Donald O'Connor

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