Courage Quotes

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitheead

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri - Frederic Amiel

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

Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.

Alexander Osborn

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

Publilius Syrus

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, The Way of Lao - Tzu

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

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

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

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.

Sydney Smith

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

Joan L. Curcio

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann von Goethe

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

Clive Staples Lewis

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

Author Unknown

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

Abraham Lincoln

By courage I repel adversity.

Anonymous

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.

Roosevelt, Eleano

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

Jean Anouilh

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

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

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

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

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.

John Anthony Ciardi

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - These are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Seymour Brune

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Joseph Addison