Courage Quotes
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.Florence Scovel Shinn
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.Jean Anouilh
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 will not forget you.William Arthur Ward
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
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
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.William Franklin Billy Graham
The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.D. A. Battista
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.Susan Taylo
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
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
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.Anonymous
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.William Ellery Channing
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
By courage I repel adversity.Anonymous
Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.Anatole France
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.Brian Adams
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexande
Courage conquers all things.Ovid
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)
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
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
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 not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.Ovid
Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.Charles Luckman
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
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
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.John Simon
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.Joseph Stalin
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.Henri - Frederic Amiel
