Courage Quotes

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

John Milton

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

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

John Wayne

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Maya Angelou

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

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

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

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

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

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

Hellen Kelle

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Lloyd Alexande

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Thornton Wilde

The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.

D. A. Battista

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

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

Joan L. Curcio

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

Clive Staples Lewis

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

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

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 no to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

Courage is found in unlikely places.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

Ambrose Redmoon

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

William Ellery Channing

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

Ren G. Torres

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Author Unknown

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

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.

Barry Schwartz

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

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith