Courage Quotes

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

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

Mark Twain

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Joseph Addison

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

By courage I repel adversity.

Anonymous

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Clive Staples Lewis

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

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

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

Plato

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri - Frederic Amiel

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Gale Brook Burket

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

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

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 fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Thomas Troward

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Brendan Francis Behan

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

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

Robert South

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare, King John, II. i

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