Courage Quotes
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.Clive Staples Lewis
Courage in danger is half the battle.Titus Plautus
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.Lao Tzu
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.Anonymous
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.Benjamin Disraeli
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams
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
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.P. G. Wodehouse
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
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.Charles Caleb Colton
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
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
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
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.J. K. Rowling
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
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.Conan Doyle
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.Katharine Butler Hathaway
We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.Rosalind Sussman Yalow
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.John Simon
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Alfred Adle
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
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.Athenus
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.George Burton Adams
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.Mark Twain
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton Wilde
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.John W. Gardne
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.Maya Angelou
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.Ronald Reagan
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
