Courage Quotes

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

C. C. Colton

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Carl Hermann Voss

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid

By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.

Anonymous

An 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.

Hoshang N. Akhta

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

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Henri de Montherlant

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

Author Unknown

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.

Sydney Smith

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

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.

Confucius Analects

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

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

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

D. H. Lawrence

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Hermann Hesse

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Titus Plautus

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

Ren G. Torres

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Maya Angelou

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Ruth Gordon

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

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Coleman Young

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Author Unknown

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing