Courage Quotes
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.Athenus
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Scovel Shinn
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.Steve Martini
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.Carl Hermann Voss
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.Van Wyck Brooks
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
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.Anonymous
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.Sydney Smith
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
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
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
By courage I repel adversity.Anonymous
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
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
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.Hermann Hesse
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.Author Unknown
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
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.George S. Patton
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.Joseph Stalin
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
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.Alexander Michael
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
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Brendan Francis Behan
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 courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.Fritz Perls
