Courage Quotes
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.Joshua 19 Bible
Courage atrophies from lack of use.Unknown
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Brendan Francis Behan
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
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
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.Charles Hamilton Aide
One man with courage is a majority.Thomas Jefferson
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.Whitney M. Young Jr.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.Vincent Van Gogh
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.Joseph Stalin
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams
Courage is found in unlikely places.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.B. J. Gupta
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
What a new face courage puts on everything.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
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
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.Theodore Roosevelt
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.Horace Smith
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
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.Ren G. Torres
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Alfred Adle
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.Robert South
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.Victoria Lincoln
Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.John Andrew Holmes
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.Ansel Adams
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
