Courage Quotes

Charlie chaplin - failure is unimportant. it takes courage to make...
Clark gable, gone with the wind - with enough courage, you can do without a...
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
Julian Weber Gordon
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
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
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
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
George Burton Adams
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
Henri de Montherlant
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Carl Sandburg
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Author Unknown
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton
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
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
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Fritz Perls
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
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
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri - Frederic Amiel
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
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
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
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
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.
C. C. Colton
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.
Euripides
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
John Simon