The greatest need in the world today is faith in God and courage to do his will.
| Teachings of Presidents of the Church: David O. McKay, p. 171
“Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point. Pilate was merciful until it became risky.”
“Decisions of character are made by remembering the right order of the first and second great commandments.”
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
| To Kill a Mockingbird
“Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but that absence of courage.”
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
“Yours is a great responsibility in this day when the need for courageous leadership is so urgent. You can become those leaders. … Our [people] need to develop qualities of leadership. They need to learn the value of staying power—stick-to-it-iveness. They need to learn devotion to duty—the devotion to duty that keeps a good doctor on the job right around the clock in an emergency; the devotion to duty that leads a scientist or a teacher to persevere in a low-paying position in public service because that is where his maximum contribution can be made.” –
“The greatest act of courage and love in the history of mankind – Christ’s atoning sacrifice – was also the greatest act of humility and submissiveness. Some may wonder if those seeking to become humble must forever defer to the strongly held opinions and positions of others. Certainly the Savior’s life evidences that true humility is anything but subservience, weakness, or servility.”
| “To Walk Humbly with Thy God,” Ensign, May 2001, p. 10
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