Courage Quotes
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.George S. Patton
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.Victoria Lincoln
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.Susan Taylo
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.Jewish Prove
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.Jan Smuts
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.Athenus
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.Raymond Lindquist
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Shinn
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
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
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
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
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
By courage I repel adversity.Anonymous
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.Jean Paul Richte
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
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
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.Charles Hamilton Aide
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.William Ellery Channing
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
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.Alexander Michael
What a new face courage puts on everything.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is knowing what not to fear.Plato
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.Carl Hermann Voss
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
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
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.Benjamin Disraeli
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
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.Judith Rossne
Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.John Andrew Holmes
