Courage Quotes
Courage in danger is half the battle.Titus Plautus
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
Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.Maya Angelou
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.Mark Twain
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.Oscar Wilde
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.Vicki Baum
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.Abraham Lincoln
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.George Washington
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.Wendell Phillips
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.Ruth Gordon
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.Robert G. Ingersoll
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
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
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.Benjamin Disraeli
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.Joseph Stalin
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.Napoleon Bonaparte
I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.Leon Blum
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Alfred Adle
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.Sydney Smith
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
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.Sydney Smith
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.Bertie Forbes
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.Andr Gide
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.James F. Clarke
When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to.Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.E. e. cummings
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.Hermann Hesse
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
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 will not forget you.William Arthur Ward
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.Unknown