Courage Quotes
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.Dean Koontz
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.C. C. Colton
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.Warren Bennis
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Thomas Edison
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.Eric Sevareid
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 plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.Hellen Kelle
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.Unknown
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
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
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
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
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
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.Mary Anne Radmache
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
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
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.Jewish Prove
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Hoshang N. Akhta
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.John Simon
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.Victoria Lincoln
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
What a new face courage puts on everything.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.Coventry Patmore
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.Euripides
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.P. G. Wodehouse
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.George Bernard Shaw
Courage is found in unlikely places.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.John Lancaster Spalding
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
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
