Courage Quotes

P. g. wodehouse - to my daughter leonora without whose never...
Clare booth luce - courage is the ladder on which all other virtues...
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
Earl Nightingale
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel Boorstin
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri - Frederic Amiel
The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.
D. A. Battista
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.
Joan L. Curcio
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
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
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Joseph Addison
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
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
Confucius
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
John Simon
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
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Clive Staples Lewis
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilde
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Alfred Adle
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren Bennis
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
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
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
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
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith
Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.
Unknown
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.
Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS
Lord 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.
Saint Francis of Assisi
By courage I repel adversity.
Anonymous
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
Judith Rossne
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw