Courage Quotes
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Mignon McLaughlin
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
Courage is grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.Wendell Phillips
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.Confucius Analects
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
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
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.Whitheead
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.Agesilaus the Second
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.Napoleon Bonaparte
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton Wilde
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.J. K. Rowling
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.Mark Twain
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.John W. Gardne
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.Author Unknown
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.Author Unknown
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.Thomas Fulle
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.Jacques Maritain
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
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.William Ellery Channing
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.John Lancaster Spalding
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
The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.D. A. Battista
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.Carl Sandburg
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Any 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.E. F. Schumache
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.Lao Tzu
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
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.Euripides
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.Herbert Kaufman
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.Charles Luckman
