Courage Quotes

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Brendan Francis Behan

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylo

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

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

Julian Weber Gordon

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

Unknown

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

George Santayana

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

Erica Jong

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

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

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

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Charles Schwa

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

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Eric Sevareid

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

Joseph Stalin

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

Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Ambrose Redmoon

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young Jr.

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca