Courage Quotes
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
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
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.Plato
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
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.Oscar Wilde
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.Susan Taylo
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
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Hoshang N. Akhta
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.Erica Jong
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.Mary Anne Radmache
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.Author Unknown
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.Athenus
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
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.Steve Martini
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.Sydney Smith
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.Maya Angelou
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
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.Joseph Addison
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
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".
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.Napoleon Bonaparte
The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.D. A. Battista
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.John Milton
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.Celeste Holm
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.Sir Walter Besant
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.Confucius
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
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.Robert Green Ingersoll
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.Aristotle
