Courage Quotes
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.Alvaro de Solva
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.Raymond Lindquist
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
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
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.Robert Albert Bloch
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
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
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.John Lancaster Spalding
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.Maya Angelou
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
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.William Ellery Channing
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.Lao Tzu
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.J. Lawton Collins
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
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.Hermann Hesse
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.Steve Martini
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.Unknown
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.William Franklin Billy Graham
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.Robert G. Ingersoll
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Scovel Shinn
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.Katharine Butler Hathaway
