Courage Quotes

Calvin coolidge - if i had permitted my failures, or what seemed to...
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Titus Plautus
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham
Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
Hermann Hesse
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.
Vicki Baum
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
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.
C. C. Colton
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Jewish Prove
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
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
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Delmore Schwartz
The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.
D. A. Battista
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
Johann von Goethe
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.
Vincent Van Gogh
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
Confucius
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Author Unknown
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Courage is one step ahead of fear.
Coleman Young
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.
Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Brendan Francis Behan
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
Ronald Reagan
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
Andrew Johnson
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
Unknown
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Fritz Perls
Without justice courage is weak.
Benjamin Franklin
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.
Author Unknown
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
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickove
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993