Courage Quotes
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.Carl Sandburg
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.Confucius Analects
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.James F. Clarke
Courage mounteth with occasion.William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.Billy Graham
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
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.Sydney Smith
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
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.Vicki Baum
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.George Burton Adams
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
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
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.Alice Mackenzie Swaim
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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 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
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.George S. Patton
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.Henri de Montherlant
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
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
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.John Updike
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.Miguel de Cervantes
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.Corra Harris
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.Mary Anne Radmache
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.William Blake
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.Baltasar Gracian