Courage Quotes

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickove

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren Bennis

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

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

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Charles Schwa

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

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 may not forget you.

Sir William Arthu

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

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

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides

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

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Shinn

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 is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Susan Taylo

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

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Eric Sevareid

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Gale Brook Burket

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

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

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri - Frederic Amiel

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)

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

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Carl Hermann Voss

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Lloyd Alexande