Courage Quotes
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
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
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
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.Joseph Stalin
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.William Franklin Billy Graham
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.Amelia Earhart
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.Eric Hoffe
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.Steve Martini
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.Jan Smuts
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.Dorothy Thompson
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.Johann von Goethe
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.William Blake
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.Andr Gide
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 no to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.Frances Rodman
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
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.James F. Clarke
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.Corra Harris
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.Confucius Analects
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
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.Euripides
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.Vicki Baum
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.Hermann Hesse
