Courage Quotes
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - These are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.Jerome Seymour Brune
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 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
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.Oscar Wilde
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
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
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
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
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.Hellen Kelle
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.Eric Sevareid
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
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, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
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
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.Joseph Stalin
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Alfred Adle
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
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
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.Paula Giddings
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.P. G. Wodehouse
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.George Burton Adams
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.Robert G. Ingersoll
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.John Simon
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.Vince Lombardi
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Martin Luther King Jr.
