Courage Quotes
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
When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to.Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda
Courage is one step ahead of fear.Coleman Young
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.Conte Vittorio Alfieri
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
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
To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.P. G. Wodehouse
Lord 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.Saint Francis of Assisi
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
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.Euripides
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
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.Daniel Boorstin
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.Paula Giddings
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.Andr Gide
Courage is knowing what not to fear.Plato
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.James F. Clarke
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
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 bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.W. Somerset Maugham
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.Charles Schwa
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.Thucydides
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.Vince Lombardi
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.Thomas Edison
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.Victoria Lincoln
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.Aristotle
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.Fritz Perls
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.Hermann Hesse
What a new face courage puts on everything.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.Clare Booth Luce
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
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
