Courage Quotes

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Sir Walter Besant

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young Jr.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

William Ellery Channing

An 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.

Hoshang N. Akhta

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

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

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927

God, 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.

Reinhold Niebuh

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

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

Ambrose Redmoon

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

D. H. Lawrence

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylo

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

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

Courage is found in unlikely places.

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

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

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Brendan Francis Behan

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

Katharine Butler Hathaway

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Eric Sevareid

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James F. Clarke

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

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

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

Delmore Schwartz

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

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

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

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Lloyd Alexande

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Shinn