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

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

Brendan Francis Behan

One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.

B. J. Gupta

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

Thornton Wilde

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

Unknown

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

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

Charlie Chaplin

Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.

Alexander Michael

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Alfred Adle

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

John Simon

When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to.

Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda

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 knowing what not to fear.

Plato

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Rosevelt

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Johann von Goethe

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

John Simon

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Marilyn Monroe

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

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylo

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.

Alice Mackenzie Swaim

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

William Ellery Channing

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

C. C. Colton

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

Thucydides

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

Thucydides

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

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Erica Jong

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Daniel Boorstin

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Eric Sevareid

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

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton