Courage Quotes
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.Robert South
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
Courage is found in unlikely places.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.Susan Taylo
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - These are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.Jerome Seymour Brune
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.Oscar Wilde
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.Marilyn Monroe
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.Ansel Adams
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
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
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.Anonymous
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.Confucius Analects
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.James Whitcomb Riley
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
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.Unknown
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
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.Henri de Montherlant
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.Joseph Stalin
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.Vince Lombardi
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.Andre Norton
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton Wilde
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.Andr Gide
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.Sir Walter Besant
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.Athenus
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.Charles Caleb Colton
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi
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.Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
