Courage Quotes

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

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren Bennis

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

Unknown

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

Julian Weber Gordon

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

Maya Angelou

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

E. F. Schumache

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Hellen Kelle

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.

Euripides

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Carl Hermann Voss

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

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Paula Giddings

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

George Bernard Shaw

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert G. Ingersoll

We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.

Celeste Holm

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

Alexander Michael

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Rosevelt

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

William Ellery Channing

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

Lord 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.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.

Alice Mackenzie Swaim

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann von Goethe

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Euripides

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

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

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

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

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Charles Hamilton Aide

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Euripides

But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

John Milton