Courage Quotes

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Clark gable, gone with the wind - with enough courage, you can do without a...
Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
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
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
Jan Smuts
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.
Steve Martini
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
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
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.
Joseph Stalin
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 not to be feared.
David Ben - Gurion
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
Theodore Roosevelt
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel Boorstin
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.
Vicki Baum
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
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
George Burton Adams
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.
Vincent Van Gogh
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
Ren G. Torres
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Seneca
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
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
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
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilde
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.
D. A. Battista
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
La Rochefoucauld
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
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
Julian Weber Gordon