Courage Quotes

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.
Joseph Stalin
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Author Unknown
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Alfred Adle
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Whitheead
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
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
Sydney Smith
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffe
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
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
Thucydides
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Athenus
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Thomas Fulle
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.
Robert Francis Kennedy
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
Jan Smuts
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
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
Johann von Goethe
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Robert Albert Bloch
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
John Simon
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
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Carl Sandburg
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andr Gide
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.
Joan L. Curcio
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith