Courage Quotes

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton

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.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Lloyd Alexande

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Euripides

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Ovid

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

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickove

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

Author Unknown

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

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 von Goethe

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

J. K. Rowling

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.

Barry Schwartz

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

Ren G. Torres

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

John Simon

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

Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

Joan L. Curcio

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.

Anonymous

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

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

Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire