Courage Quotes

Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.

Alexander Michael

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Alfred Adle

Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.

Unknown

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.

B. J. Gupta

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Gale Brook Burket

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

Julian Weber Gordon

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Euripides

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg

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

Walt Disney

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

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

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.

Author Unknown

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

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

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

Herbert Kaufman

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

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren Bennis

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

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

Henri de Montherlant

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

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

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

Joseph Stalin

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

Lloyd Alexande

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

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

John Simon

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

Jacques Maritain

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

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Ronald Reagan

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - These are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Seymour Brune

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

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad