Courage Quotes
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
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
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.John Anthony Ciardi
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.B. J. Gupta
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.Sydney Smith
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.Jean Paul Richte
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.Aristotle
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
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.Sydney Smith
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.Susan Taylo
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
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.Coventry Patmore
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.Ren G. Torres
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
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
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
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
Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.Black Hawk
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.William Franklin Billy Graham
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
Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.Joshua 19 Bible
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
Without justice courage is weak.Benjamin Franklin
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 takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.E. e. cummings
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
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
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
Courage is knowing what not to fear.Plato
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
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
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.Eric Sevareid
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.John Simon
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.Corra Harris
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.Euripides
