COURAGE Affirmations

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. (Mark Twain)

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain)

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. (Confucius)

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. (Confucius)

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. (Aristotle)

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. (Aristotle)

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. (Socrates)

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. (George S. Patton)

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. (Unknown)

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. (Anais Nin)

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. (Walt Disney)

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

It requires more courage to suffer than to die. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Courage is grace under pressure. (Ernest Hemingway)

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Every man of courage is a man of his word. (Pierre Corneille)

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. (Robert Green Ingersoll)

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. (Robert Green Ingersoll)

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. (Plautus)

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. (Albert Camus)

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. (James Allen)

A man of courage is also full of faith. (Marcus Tullius Cicero )

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. (Joseph Smith, Jr. )

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. (Jonas Salk)

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. (Orison Swett Marden)

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. (Orison Swett Marden)

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? (Charles Lindbergh)

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. (Howard Cosell)

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. (Thomas S. Monson)

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval. (Thomas S. Monson)

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Lord Chesterfield)

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. (Alfred North Whitehead)

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. (Georg C. Lichtenberg)

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. (Samuel Johnson)

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. (Thomas Carlyle)

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. (Charles Caleb Colton)

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. (Miguel de Cervantes)

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. (John Quincy Adams)

Dedication AffirmationsDedicate yourself to excellence, fairness, gratitude, laughter, sincerity and willingness. These virtues will lead to harmony and a life of contentment. (Callahan)

Destiny AffirmationsIt makes no sense that our caring, loving Creator would create us for failure, sadness or fear. We are destined to be creatures of success, happiness and fearless. It is our divine birthright to be successful, happy, fearless and strong. (Callahan)

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (William Jennings Bryan)

Governments my try and suppress me. Temptations may try and hinder me. Persecutions may try and hurt me. Jealousy may try and repress my destiny. But I am the master of my destiny. It matters not what others do to me, say about me or feel about me. For with my mind I am my destiny. (Callahan) Courage affirmation jewelry charms.