Courage Quotes
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
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
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.Vincent Van Gogh
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.Thomas Fulle
What a new face courage puts on everything.Ralph Waldo Emerson
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry S Truman
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.Publilius Syrus
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.Wendell Phillips
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.Joseph Addison
God, 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.Reinhold Niebuh
One man with courage makes a majority.Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Brendan Francis Behan
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.Andr Gide
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
Courage is found in unlikely places.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.William Ellery Channing
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
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton Wilde
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
Courage is one step ahead of fear.Coleman Young
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Alfred Adle
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
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 consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.Author Unknown
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
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Eleanor Rosevelt
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.Sir William Arthu
Courage conquers all things.Ovid
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....Leo C. Rosten
