Courage Quotes

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Brendan Francis Behan

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Clive Staples Lewis

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

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

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

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Henri de Montherlant

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

Without justice courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream".

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

John Simon

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Author Unknown

We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.

Celeste Holm

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

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

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

The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

By courage I repel adversity.

Anonymous

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

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

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Robert South

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Raymond Lindquist

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fulle

An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Hoshang N. Akhta

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

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

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

Vicki Baum

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Thornton

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

Walt Disney

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts