Courage Quotes

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Sir William Arthu

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

Vicki Baum

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

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

Seneca

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

William Arthur Ward

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

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

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Coleman Young

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

Marilyn Monroe

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What a new face courage puts on everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Carl Hermann Voss

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

Whitney M. Young Jr.

Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.

Unknown

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James F. Clarke

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

Ren G. Torres

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

Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

One man with courage is a majority.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Mark Twain

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Shinn

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

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardne

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

Erica Jong

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

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

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

Eric Sevareid

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

J. Lawton Collins

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

William Franklin Billy Graham

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz