Quotes about Courage
If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."
- Norman Vincent Peale
On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don't quit, whatever you do. Persevere.
- Charles Swindoll
Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?
- Thomas Watson
Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
- Vance Havner
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.
- Nelson Mandela
A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.
- Toni Morrison
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
- Mahatma Gandhi
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
- Robert Frost
To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.
- Marianne Williamson