Courage Quotes

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

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

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

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Hermann Hesse

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri - Frederic Amiel

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

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

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

Katharine Butler Hathaway

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

Abraham Lincoln

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 may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Euripides

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Confucius

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.

Confucius Analects

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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

Carl Hermann Voss

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - These are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Seymour Brune

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

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

Julian Weber Gordon

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

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

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

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

Marilyn Monroe

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison