Courage Quotes

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Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
Author Unknown
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
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 is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.
William Franklin Billy Graham
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.
Alvaro de Solva
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
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
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
La Rochefoucauld
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.
Jacques Maritain
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
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Titus Plautus
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
Thucydides
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Delmore Schwartz
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Carl Sandburg
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.
Vincent Van Gogh
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Whitheead
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
William Ellery Channing
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
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
Sir James Glove
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
Julian Weber Gordon
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton
Lord 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.
Saint Francis of Assisi
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
Unknown