Courage Quotes
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.Sir Walter Besant
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.Jewish Prove
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.Raymond Lindquist
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.Horace Smith
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
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
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.Carl Sandburg
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
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
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.Daniel Boorstin
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
Courage is knowing what not to fear.Plato
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
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
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
Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.Black Hawk
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
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 the thing. All goes if courage goes.Joseph Addison
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.Elizabeth Harrison
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
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.John Lancaster Spalding
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
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton Wilde
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.Ronald Reagan
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
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.Charles Hamilton Aide
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.Jan Smuts
Courage in danger is half the battle.Titus Plautus
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.Wendell Phillips
