It doesn't take courage to kill someone, it takes a severe lack of moral stamina. - Lemony Snicket Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. - George Bernard Shaw I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. - Catherine Ii So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian. - Shane Claiborne Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house. - Socrates Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communica...

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. - Confucius My darling girl, when are you going to understand that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Alice Hoffman You know, being normal isn't a terrible thing," he says. "It isn't terrible ," I agree. "It's just a lack of courage. - Katie Kacvinsky

The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too simple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It takes courage to fight the beast. - Tori Amos Perhaps it takes courage to raise children. - John Steinbeck it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone - Mahatma Gandhi It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline. - Julia Cameron Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. - Pablo Casals Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. - Charlie Chaplin Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer a...

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through. - King Abdullah Ii There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. - Ronald Reagan If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. - David Viscott Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem - Paulo Coelho I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up to them. I also learned to forgive myself and c...

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. - Tori Amos To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. - Saint Teresa Of Avila How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. - Benjamin Franklin It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. - Giacomo Casanova You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. - William Faulkner Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. - Victor Hugo Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery - Anne Frank When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to ha...

How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans. - Stephen King I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you! - Frank B Gilbreth The average man has no central core of moral assurance, no spring within his breast, no inner strength to place him above the need for repeated psychological shots to give him the courage to go on living. He has become a parasite on the world, drawing his life from his environmen...

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit that prosper. - Joe Abercrombie Courage is found in unlikely places. - J R R Tolkien Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future. - Gerry Adams Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes - Joseph Addison Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation. - Jaachynma N E Agu Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. - Edward Albert Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them d...