Courage Quotes
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.Jewish Prove
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
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.Clive Staples Lewis
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.Corra Harris
Courage atrophies from lack of use.Unknown
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.John Simon
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Albert Einstein
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.Euripides
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
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
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
Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.John Andrew Holmes
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.Robert South
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Courage is knowing what not to fear.Plato
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.Whitney M. Young Jr.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.Bertie Forbes
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.Daniel Boorstin
One man with courage makes a majority.Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
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
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.Joseph Stalin
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.Albert Einstein
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
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.Thomas Fulle
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
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.John Simon
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.Hermann Hesse
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
