Courage Quotes
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.Conan Doyle
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
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.John Kenneth Galbraith
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.Hermann Hesse
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
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
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.E. e. cummings
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.Mary Anne Radmache
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
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
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
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
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.Celeste Holm
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 consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.Charles Caleb Colton
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.Johann von Goethe
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.Susan Taylo
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.Robert G. Ingersoll
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.Clive Staples Lewis
Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.John Andrew Holmes
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.John Lancaster Spalding
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.Ruth Gordon
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
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
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.Charles Luckman
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.Alexander Michael
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.Elizabeth Harrison
