Courage Quotes

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

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Henri de Montherlant

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

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

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickove

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.

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

Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Euripides

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

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Mark Twain

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.

Vincent Van Gogh

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

Joseph Stalin

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann von Goethe

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

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

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Unknown

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Hellen Kelle

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

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

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg