Courage Quotes
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you
decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you
are wrong. There are always difficulties arising, which tempt
you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a
course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of
the same courage which a soldier needs....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
It is to live that requires courage, not to die....Victoria Holt.
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as
open as possible. To have real conversation with
people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion,
but it involves courage and risk....Thomas Moore.
Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness
and courage and hope....George Marshall.
If you're imagining what it would be like if you
told them that you loved them and them not loving
you, imagine what it would be like if they did love
you and you went through life without them because you
didn't have the courage to let them know....Unknown.
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if
you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical
pain is a fact that comes with living, just as
illness or financial woes or broken relationships
are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a
reaction to the facts, that can be controlled
or altered by an act of will....Barbara.
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 one from the other....Reinhold Niebuhr.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting
peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release
from little things; knows not the livid loneliness
of fear; nor mountain heights where bitter joy
can hear the sound of wings....Amelia Earhart.
A dream becomes a reality in 4 stages....dreaming, wanting,
planning, and doing. Courage is the glue. If you don't have
courage you will never want it bad enough to plan. If you
don't have courage, you will never plan it well enough to
do. If you don't have courage, the plan will never fulfill
your dreams. If you do not fulfill your dreams, you may not
have the courage to dream again. Courage my friend!....Unknown.
The secret of freedom, courage....Thucydides.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but
rather the judgment that something else is
more important than fear....Ambrose Redmoon.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish into air....John Quincy Adams.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the
quality which guarantees all others....Winston Churchill.
Courage is the ladder on which all the
other virtues mount....Clare Boothe Luce.
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar....Mary Byrant.
Courage can't see around corners, but goes
around them anyway....Mignon McLaughlin.
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the
absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in
spite of fear....John-Roger and Peter McWilliams.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are stiffened....Billy Graham.
Courage is very important. Like a muscle,
it is strengthened by use....Ruth Gordon.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow
the talent to the dark place where it leads....Erica Jong.
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love,
you have to find the courage to live it....John Irving.
It takes courage to grow up and turn out
to be who you really are....e.e. cummings.
One person with courage makes a majority....Andrew Jackson.
One man with courage is a majority....Thomas Jefferson.
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.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to
take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday
living requires courage if life is to be
effective and bring happiness....Maxwell Maltz.
You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered;
you conquer yourself -- your hopes, your fears....Jim Whitaker.
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death....Seneca.
Courage means to keep working a relationship,
to continue seeking solutions to difficult
problems, and to stay focused during
stressful periods....Denis Waitley.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man
when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a
sense of duty acts in a uniform manner....Joseph Addison.
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile
of God's approval....Thomas S. Monson.
Father, may these people have the vision to see,
the faith to accept the truth, the courage to
stand by that which they know is right....Unknown.
For without belittling the courage with which men
have died, we should not forget those acts of
courage with which men have lived....John F. Kennedy.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage....Seneca.
Give us the fortitude to endure the things which
cannot be changed, and the courage to change the
things which should be changed, and the wisdom
to know one from the other....Oliver J. Hart.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous.
Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your
God is with you wherever you go....Joshua 1:9.
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die....Robert Cody.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to
face the truth. Do the right thing because it
is right. These are the magic keys to living
your life with integrity....W. Clement Stone.
I would define true courage to be a perfect
sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental
willingness to endure it....William T. Sherman.
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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common
in the world, and moral courage so rare....Mark Twain.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die....Napoleon Bonaparte.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it
does to have tried and succeeded....Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think
of Moses today if when it was time to part the Red Sea, he
had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?....Unknown.
It takes courage to push yourself to places that you
have never been before...to test your limits...to break
through barriers. And the day came when the risk it
took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful
than the risk it took to blossom....Anais Nin.
It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes
faith and courage to prove....Owen D. Young.
Last, but by no means least, courage -- moral courage,
the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see
things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy
against the brave. It's the age-old struggle -- the
roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your
conscience on the other....Douglas Macarthur.
Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in
battle or great intelligence....Robert F. Kennedy.
Most men have more courage than even they
themselves think they have....Lord Greville.
Most of us have far more courage than we
ever dreamed we possessed....Dale Carnegie.
Often the test of courage is not to die
but to live....Conte Di Alfieri Vittorio.
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.
Courage is like love; it must have
hope to nourish it....Napoleon Bonaparte.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what
one would be capable of doing with the world
looking on....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
We can never be certain of our courage until we
have faced danger....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle
than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a
magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy....John F. Kennedy.
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that
can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making
dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me,
can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity,
confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of
all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in
it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable....Walt Disney.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the
courage to lose sight of the shore....Andre Gide.
Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark
as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in
God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary
and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or
weary. Trust in God, and do the right....Norman Macleod.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man
loves an idea better than all things in the world,
that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner,
nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the
invisible thought of his mind....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Courage conquers all things: it even
gives strength to the body....Ovid.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger,
but in seeing it, and conquering it....Jean Paul Richter.
Courage in danger is half the battle....Titus Maccius Plautus.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining
virtue, that it is always respected, even when
it is associated with vice....Samuel Johnson.
Courage is acting in spite of fear....Howard W. Hunter.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.
It means a strong desire to live taking the
form of a readiness to die....Gilbert K. Chesterton.
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 doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no
courage unless you're scared....Edward Vernon Rickenbacker.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer....George S. Patton.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers....Dorothy Bernard.
Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm....Winston Churchill.
Courage is grace under pressure....Ernest Hemingway.
Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the
Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in
your house. The real tests of courage are much
quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining
faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring
pain when the room is empty, like standing
alone when you're misunderstood....Unknown.
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.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of
fear -- not absence of fear....Mark Twain.
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the
virtues, for upon it, all others depend....Winston Churchill.
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with
restraint in times of prosperity and with courage
and tenacity when things do not go well....James V. Forrestal.
Courage is the capacity to confirm
what can be imagined....Leo Rosten.
Physical courage, which engages all danger,
will make a person brave in one way; and moral
courage, which defies all opinion, will make a
person brave in another....Charles Caleb Colton.
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth;
no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes
a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are
identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman
becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his
or her commitment to them. People attain worth and
dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from
day by day. These decisions require courage....Rollo May.
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is
to profess courage and act accordingly....Corra May Harris.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to
die decently, but to live manfully....Thomas Carlyle.
The real acid test of courage is to be just
your honest self when everybody is trying
to be like somebody else....Andrew Jensen.
The scars you acquire while exercising courage
will never make you feel inferior....D.A. Battista.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all
virtues is true courage....Michel Eyquem De Montaigne.
The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test
of courage comes when we are in a minority....Ralph W. Stockman.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather
the firm resolve of virtue and reason....Alfred North Whitehead.
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything
in this world without courage. It is the greatest
quality of the mind next to honor....James Allen.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the
strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity....Keshavan Nair.
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues,
for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate;
they too have this quality in common, that they are
expressed by the same color....Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger,
and a mental willingness to endure it....William T. Sherman.
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would
be brave let him obey his conscience....James Freeman Clarke.
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.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your
relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving
difficult times and challenging adversity....Barbara De Angelis.
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are
and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return,
the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will
finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for
you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence....Og Mandino.
Acquire the courage to believe in yourself.
Many of the things that you have been taught
were at one time the radical ideas of individuals
who had the courage to believe what their own
hearts and minds told them was true, rather than
accept the common beliefs of their day....Ching Ning Chu.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties....Erich Fromm.
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage
to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent
to the dark places where it leads....Erica Jong.
Have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be
humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity....Keshavan Nair.
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage....Samuel Johnson.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the
truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the
magic keys to living your life with integrity....W. Clement Stone.
Courage only occurs in the presence of fear and
logic is not necessarily involved....Bruce Lowell Olley.
To see what is right, and not to do it, is
want of courage or of principle.....Confucius.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage....Anais Nin.
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....Mark Twain.
The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time
have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,
have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth....Albert Einstein.
"What is morality" she asked. Judgment to distinguish
right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to
act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity
to stand by the good at any price....Ayn Rand.
Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their
fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of
their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than
bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one
essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a
world that yields most painfully to change....Robert F. Kennedy.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear
defeat without losing heart....Robert Green Ingersoll.
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