Courage Quotes

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

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 will not forget you.

William Arthur Ward

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

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.

Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

Courage conquers all things.

Ovid

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Bertie Forbes

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

Corra Harris

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.

John Kenneth Galbraith

What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.

David L Boren

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

Thornton

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike

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

George Washington

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

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

James F. Clarke

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

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

W. Somerset Maugham

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Charlie Chaplin

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

Miguel de Cervantes

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Alfred Adle

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.

Alexander Osborn

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

Jean Anouilh

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Clive Staples Lewis

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fulle

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

Sydney Smith

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

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