Courage Quotes
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
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.Plato
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Scovel Shinn
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney
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
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
Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.Joshua 19 Bible
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.Seneca
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.P. G. Wodehouse
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
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.Maya Angelou
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
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.J. K. Rowling
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.J. Lawton Collins
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.Carl Sandburg
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Martin Luther King Jr.
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.Amelia Earhart Putnam
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.Ruth Gordon
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
Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.Robert G. Ingersoll
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.Maya Angelou
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.Jacques Maritain
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
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
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Thomas Edison
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.Ren G. Torres
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.George Bernard Shaw
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.Hermann Hesse
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.William Blake
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
