Courage Quotes

Courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare, King John, II. i

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

Julian Weber Gordon

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

Eric Sevareid

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.

Alexander Michael

What a new face courage puts on everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

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

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickove

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Marilyn Monroe

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Charles Hamilton Aide

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

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

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

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

J. K. Rowling

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.

Confucius Analects

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, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

Steve Martini

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

Whitney M. Young Jr.

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein