Quotes About Acts Of Courage

#1. There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

M. Scott Peck

#2. We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

Charles Peguy

#3. The greatest act of courage is not falling in love But, despite everything, falling in love again.

Robin Wayne Bailey

#4. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

Robert Kennedy

#5. 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

#6. That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Joseph Addison

#7. To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

Martin Seligman

#8. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#9. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

Daisaku Ikeda

#10. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Joseph Addison

#11. Not all great acts of courage are obvious to those looking in from the outside.

Mia Sheridan

#12. Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

Paulo Freire

#13. Motherhood is always an act of courage.

Stacy Schiff

#14. And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Rene Cassin

#15. Religion may indeed inspire acts of great kindness and courage. But it also trains people to believe things for which there is no evidence. This makes religion's intrusion into the political sphere all the more troubling.

Ron Reagan

#16. We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

Aristotle.

#17. Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.

John Dewey

#18. I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

Edith Hamilton

#19. It's a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

Henrik Ibsen

#20. It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.

Harriet Lerner

#21. For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

John F. Kennedy

#22. Courage doesn't defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#23. The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.

Matthew Fox

#24. Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

Robin Sharma

#25. Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.

Bear Grylls

#26. Even in the most bold and daring acts, courage is a matter of the heart.

Catherine Martin

#27. I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. It is a beautiful thought.

Veronica Roth

#28. Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#29. If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

Jeanette Winterson

#30. Perhaps courage is simply this spur-of-the-moment acts when your head screams don't, but your body does it anyway.

A J Betts

#31. What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Noam Chomsky

#32. I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

Diane Ackerman

#33. Courage is required 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

#34. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

Napoleon Hill

#35. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert Kennedy

#36. I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.

Richard Paul Evans

#37. One of the greatest acts of courage is having to face every day of life feeling unloved.

Joseph Curiale

#38. He was one
of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good
feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a
capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to.

Albert Camus

#39. A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.

Andy Stanley

#40. We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Veronica Roth

#41. I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

John McCain

#42. Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

Nigel Dennis

#43. Art is a personal act of courage.

Seth Godin

#44. Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

Bill Vaughan

#45. Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage. In a society that says, "Put yourself last," self-love and self-acceptance are almost revolutionary.

Brene Brown

#46. To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.

Stephen Covey

#47. God makes His presence known in many ways. In acts of love, in selfless acts of courage, in everyday human compassion.

William Kent Krueger

#48. Love is capital which should never diminish; the greatest acts are not acts of courage, but acts of love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#49. Wounds to the flesh hurt but they heal fast. Wounds to the soul never go away. It's how we cope with a pain that never dies that makes us the people we are. Daily, people demonstrate acts of courage just so they can get through to the night.

Kristen Ashley

#50. When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. ACTS 4:13

Andrew Murray

#51. Physical courage to a person of honour is easier and less risky than acts that could subject him to embarrassment or humiliation or a diminished career or reputation. These things he must live with. To die for honor is an easier thought to bear.

Michael Josephson