Courage Quotes

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.
Author Unknown
We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.
Rosalind Sussman Yalow
By courage I repel adversity.
Anonymous
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffe
Franklin d. roosevelt, fourth inaugural address, jan. 20, 1945 - we can gain no lasting peace if we approach it...
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren Bennis
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richte
Sir winston leonard spenser churchill - success is not final, failure is not fatal it is...
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Carl Hermann Voss
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.
Jerome P. Fleishman
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
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
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
George washington - to encourage literature and the arts is a duty...
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
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Whitney M. Young Jr.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel Boorstin
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
Sydney Smith
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Susan Taylo
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
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.
P. G. Wodehouse
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
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
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
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
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andr Gide
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
Frances Rodman
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
Unknown
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Athenus
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Seneca