~ Courage and Bravery Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes.

Rollo May

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

Rollo May

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
Napoleon Bonaparte

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Audre Lorde

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.

Thomas J. Watson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The highest courage is not to be found in the instinctive acts of men who risk their lives to save a friend or slay a foe; the physical fearlessness of a moment or an hour is not to be compared with immolation of months or years for the sake of wisdom or art.

Joseph H. Odell

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]In forty hours I shall be in battle with little information and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that with God's help I shall make them and make them right.

George S. Patton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them more strength to relate to people than to dominate them more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit not in muscles and an immature mind.

Alex Karras

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger misfortune fear injustice while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man both are necessary.

Charles Caleb Colton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]How then find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness spontaneity instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.

Henri Frederic Amiel

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Duty honour country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be what you can be what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

Douglas MacArthur