Courage Quotes

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

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Alfred Adle

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Unknown

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

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

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young Jr.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

William Franklin Billy Graham

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

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

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

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

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylo

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Confucius

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.

Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Hellen Kelle

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fulle

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Unknown

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

Courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare, King John, II. i

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

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.

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 not to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Euripides

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

Unknown