Courage Quotes

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Coleman Young

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.

Sydney Smith

Lord 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.

Saint Francis of Assisi

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Ovid

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Ruth Gordon

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

What a new face courage puts on everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Charles Schwa

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.

Jerome P. Fleishman

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - These are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Seymour Brune

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 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

Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

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

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Maya Angelou