Courage Quotes

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren Bennis
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
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....
Leo C. Rosten
Vincent van gogh - what would life be if we had no courage to...
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
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
Dean koontz - some people think only intellect counts knowing...
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
Thomas Troward
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
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.
J. Lawton Collins
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.
Francois de Fenelon
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset Maugham
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. e. cummings
Coventry patmore - to him that waits all things reveal themselves,...
Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andr Gide
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.
Barry Schwartz
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
John Simon
Without justice courage is weak.
Benjamin Franklin
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall Smith
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
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James F. Clarke
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Carl Sandburg
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickove
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.
Alexander Michael
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.
Julie Arabi
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
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks