Courage Quotes
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
When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to.Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.John Kenneth Galbraith
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.Unknown
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.Robert G. Ingersoll
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.Athenus
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
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.George Burton Adams
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
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.John Updike
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.Dorothy Thompson
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
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.Anatole France
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.Celeste Holm
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
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
All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney
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
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
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.Oscar Wilde
Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.Euripides
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.Jewish Prove
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.Conan Doyle
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.Alexander Osborn
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".
Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Alfred Adle
