Courage Quotes
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
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
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.Unknown
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.Mark Twain
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
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
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.Anonymous
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.George S. Patton
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
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.William Ellery Channing
One man with courage makes a majority.Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.Johann von Goethe
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.Billy Graham
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry S Truman
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
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
Courage mounteth with occasion.William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.Author Unknown
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
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 what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.Carl Hermann Voss
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.Confucius
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.Aristotle
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.Saint Francis de Sales
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.Author Unknown
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Robert Albert Bloch
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
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, The Way of Lao - Tzu
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 not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.Clive Staples Lewis
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.Alvaro de Solva
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Thomas Edison
