Courage Quotes

Franklin d. roosevelt, fourth inaugural address, jan. 20, 1945 - we can gain no lasting peace if we approach it...
Johann von goethe - correction does much, but encouragement does more....
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
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.
Vincent Van Gogh
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.
Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri - Frederic Amiel
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm
Thornton wilde - hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not...
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffe
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.
Unknown
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.
Author Unknown
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
La Rochefoucauld
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.
Steve Martini
Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.
John Andrew Holmes
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Charles Hamilton Aide
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.
William Franklin Billy Graham
Be strong and of good courage be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Joshua 19 Bible
Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare, King John, II. i
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
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
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
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams
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
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.
David L Boren
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
Thomas Troward
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
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
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Shinn
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Author Unknown