Courage Quotes
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.Julie Arabi
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.Amelia Earhart Putnam
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.Bertie Forbes
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Robert Albert Bloch
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.Robert South
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.Saint Francis de Sales
Without justice courage is weak.Benjamin Franklin
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.Baltasar Gracian
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.Unknown
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.Raymond Lindquist
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.Alvaro de Solva
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.Joseph Addison
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.Albert Einstein
Courage is one step ahead of fear.Coleman Young
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the Second
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.Sydney Smith
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.Johann von Goethe
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.Wendell Phillips
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.Frances Rodman
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.Andr Gide
Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.Alice Mackenzie Swaim
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.Ralph W. Sockman
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Shinn
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.George Washington
