Courage Quotes

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

Ren G. Torres

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

Walt Disney

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Eric Sevareid

Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

Joan L. Curcio

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

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

Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

Andrew Johnson

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

Jan Smuts

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

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 may not forget you.

Sir William Arthu

Courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare, King John, II. i

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

Leon Blum

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

What a new face courage puts on everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.

B. J. Gupta

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

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

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

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

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

Abraham Lincoln

Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Marilyn Monroe

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Euripides

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

Hellen Kelle

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James F. Clarke

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Johann von Goethe

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

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

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

George Washington

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

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Coventry Patmore

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz