"All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt Disney is the author of this quotation. This is a wonderful quotation in anticipation of the New Year!
Courage cannot be separated from success, satisfying relationships and the experience of happiness and freedom.
Mental fitness and courage are inseparable for coping with both adversity and success. With mental fitness, one has the thought processes, mental training and commitment to courageously reach goals and overcome adversity as well as the complacency, oftentimes, accompanying success.
In anticipation of the new year, I want to share with you these 50 quotations on courage from Brainy Quote.
COURAGE AND FOCUSING
1. "It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live their dreams" by Les Brown.
2. "Then there is still a higher type of courage- the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead" by Howard Cosell.
3. "Everyone has talent. What is rare to have the courage to follow that talent to that dark place where it leads" by Eric Jong.
4. "Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act" by Maxwell Maltz.
5. "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction" by John F. Kennedy.
COURAGE AND FEAR
6. "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." Quotation from Dale Carnegie.
7. "The best thing to do is to stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable" by Terri Clark.
8. "He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious thought it is, the characteristics which we love best in human nature grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles" by Harry Emerson Fosdick.
9. "Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared" by David Ben-Gurion.
10. "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer" by George S. Patton
11. "Courage is knowing what not to fear" by Plato.
12. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There is no courage unless you were scared." Quotations by Eddie Richenbacher.
13. "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience when we stop and really look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot " by Eleanor Roosevelt.
14. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear" by Mark Twain.
15. "We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
16. "Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair" by Rollo May.
COURAGE AND THE COMFORT ZONE
17. "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties" by Eric Fromm.
18. "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" by Vincent Van Gogh.
19 "We need to find the courage to say No to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity" by Barbara D. Angelis.
20. "Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it" by Albert Camas.
21. "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore" by Lord Chesterfield.
22. "It is easy enough to praise man for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could convince the sad young of this mealy generation of the courage of their confusion" by John Ciardi.
23. "Success is not final, failure is not final: it is the courage to continue that counts" by Winston Churchill..
24. "Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed" by Dale Carnegie.
25. "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself". Quotations from Charlie Chaplin.
COURAGE AND RELATIONSHIPS
26. "You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity" by Epicurus.
27. "To love someone deeply gives you strength, being loved by someone deeply gives you courage" by Lao Tzu.
28. "From caring comes courage: by Lao Yzu.
29. "Courage means to continue working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during difficult periods" by Dennis Watley.
30. "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return" by Maya Angelou.
WHAT IS COURAGE
31. "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor" by Aristotle.
32. "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees the others" by Aristotle.
33. "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die" by Gilbert K. Chesterton.
34. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen" by Winston Churchill.
35. "To persevere, trusting in what hope he has, is courage in a man" by Euripides..
36 "Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use" by Ruth Gordon.
37. "Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened" by Billy Graham.
38. "One man with courage is a majority" by Thomas Jefferson.
39. "The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity" by Rollo May.
40. "You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence" by Abraham Lincoln.
41. "God grant us grace to accept with serenity of things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other" by Reinhold Niebuhr.
42. "Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outer results" by Kenneth L. Pike.
43. "Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence" by Thomas Szasz.
44. "The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage" by Thucydides.
45. "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable" by Paul Tillich.
46. "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into thin air" by John Quincy Adams.
WHAT IS NOT COURAGE
47. "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage" by Confucius.
48. "Any fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, - and a lot of courage - to move in the other direction" by Albert Einstein.
49. "Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks for himself the courage of other persons" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
50. "All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them" by Walt Disney.
May you have a courageous New Year.
Remember, You Will Live within the New Year Created by Your Choices!
Dr. Hal
Life and Mental Fitness Coach
20. "Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it" by Albert Camas.
He's name is Camus!
Posted by: Allan | March 18, 2009 at 02:05 PM