Courage Quotes
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.Eric Sevareid
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.Jean Anouilh
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
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)
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
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.John Milton
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
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
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
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.William Blake
All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.Seneca
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
Courage conquers all things.Ovid
Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.Euripides
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.George Washington
Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.David Ben - Gurion
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.Thomas Fulle
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
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
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
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
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
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.George S. Patton
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
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
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.Hermann Hesse
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
Courage is knowing what not to fear.Plato
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
