Courage Quotes

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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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Carl Hermann Voss
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams
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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
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
George washington - to encourage literature and the arts is a duty...
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richte
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andr Gide
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
Sir James Glove
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.
Unknown
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Publilius Syrus
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwa
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
Thucydides
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall Smith
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
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.
Jerome P. Fleishman
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
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 one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Athenus
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.
Ronald Reagan
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.
Jacques Maritain
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
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
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Albert Einstein
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm
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 world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana