Pastoral Resources

Courage is always rewarded.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

Creativity takes courage.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.