Courage Quotes

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

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

Whitheead

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

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

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

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.

Author Unknown

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

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Rosevelt

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

Erica Jong

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

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

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

Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

Andrew Johnson

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumache

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

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

Julian Weber Gordon

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Euripides

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

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 is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Clive Staples Lewis

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

But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

John Milton

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Corra Harris

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

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Erica Jong

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Gale Brook Burket