Courage Quotes

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Alfred Adle

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.

John Anthony Ciardi

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

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 is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

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

Author Unknown

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

Erica Jong

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Lord 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.

Saint Francis of Assisi

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Hellen Kelle

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

Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.

Alexander Michael

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

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

George Washington

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

Leon Blum

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

Ambrose Redmoon

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

D. H. Lawrence

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

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

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

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

Clive Staples Lewis

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickove

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

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.

Roosevelt, Eleano

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

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

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andr Gide