Courage Quotes

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

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Thomas Troward

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

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

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

By courage I repel adversity.

Anonymous

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitheead

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Unknown

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Athenus

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Hellen Kelle

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Joseph Addison

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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 consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Courage is found in unlikely places.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare, King John, II. i

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

William Franklin Billy Graham

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

It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato