Courage Quotes

Mary higgins clark, kitchen privileges, a memoi - happines is like mercury. hard to hold, and when...
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
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
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
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. e. cummings
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
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. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
Confucius - to see what is right, and not to do it, is want...
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
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
George bernard shaw - the only service a friend can really render is to...
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
Andrew Johnson
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin
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
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richte
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffe
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Lloyd Alexande
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.
J. Lawton Collins
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Thomas Fulle
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
William Ellery Channing
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
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Marilyn Monroe
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall Smith
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
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Publilius Syrus
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 great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence
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
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
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
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith