Courage Quotes

Abraham lincoln - discourage litigation. persuade your neighbors to...
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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
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
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 resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
J. lawton collins - no matter how brilliant a man may be, he will...
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
Jan Smuts
W. somerset maugham - to bear failure with courage is the best proof of...
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
William Ellery Channing
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
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Shinn
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
Thucydides
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
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann von Goethe
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.
Hoshang N. Akhta
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
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon
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 resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou
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
Courage atrophies from lack of use.
Unknown
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Lloyd Alexande
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
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 more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
Julian Weber Gordon
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Carl Hermann Voss
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
Theodore Roosevelt
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