Courage Quotes

George burton adams - note how good you feel after you have encouraged...
Conte vittorio alfieri - often the test of courage is not to die but to...
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou
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
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
Miguel de Cervantes
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.
Author Unknown
Earl nightingale - courage changes things for the better... with...
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.
Paula Giddings
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
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.
Reinhold Niebuh
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.
B. J. Gupta
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.
Hoshang N. Akhta
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.
Vicki Baum
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Thomas Fulle
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.
Reinhold Niebuh
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Amelia Earhart
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.
Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.
Rosalind Sussman Yalow
What a new face courage puts on everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Marilyn Monroe
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.
Euripides
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
La Rochefoucauld
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.
Unknown
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Brian Adams