Courage Quotes

Confucius - to see what is right, and not to do it, is want...
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
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
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
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Lloyd Alexande
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 bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence
Andrew johnson - our government sprang from and was made for the...
Courage atrophies from lack of use.
Unknown
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Jacques maritain - a man of courage flees forward in the midst of...
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling
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
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
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
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann von Goethe
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Whitheead
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
Thomas Troward
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.
Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown
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
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
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Any 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.
E. F. Schumache
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
Maya Angelou
What a new face courage puts on everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
William Arthur Ward