Courage Quotes

Gilbert keith chesterton - courage is almost a contradiction in terms. it...
Steve martini - the problem most people have with resisting...
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
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.
Jerome P. Fleishman
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
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Brendan Francis Behan
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
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
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
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
Author Unknown
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
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
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.
Julie Arabi
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Joseph Addison
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richte
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
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
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.
Gale Brook Burket
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge
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
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset Maugham
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 of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.
Agesilaus the Second
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
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams
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.
Roosevelt, Eleano
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.
Vincent Van Gogh
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.
Amelia Earhart Putnam
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte