Browsing Quotes With Tag: courage (26)
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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but also as a determination to live decently.
…Courage is not the absence of fear but the mastery of it.Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
So, to feel brave, act as if we were brave. Use all of our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is better to face fear once than to live in its shadow.
Speaker: Harold BrownPosted: 27 Feb 2008 at 9:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!