Courage Quotes

Sydney smith - have the courage to be ignorant of a great number...
Eleanor roosevelt, my day - people grow through experience if they meet life...
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge
The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.
D. A. Battista
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Whitheead
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
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
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.
Anonymous
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
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andr Gide
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
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
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
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
Thucydides
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Edison
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - These are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Jerome Seymour Brune
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.
Joseph Stalin
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
Confucius
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Bertie Forbes
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richte
We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.
Rosalind Sussman Yalow
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Thomas Fulle
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
John W. Gardne
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.
Agesilaus the Second
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
Henri de Montherlant
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
What a new face courage puts on everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
Hellen Kelle
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Joseph Addison
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz