Courage Quotes

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilde
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
Unknown
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.
Vicki Baum
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
Sir James Glove
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Conan Doyle
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andr Gide
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.
Rosalind Sussman Yalow
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.
Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, A Memoi
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence
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
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.
Joan L. Curcio
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
Oscar Wilde
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
We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm
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
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
Jan Smuts
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
Theodore Roosevelt
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
Confucius
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert G. Ingersoll
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.
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Athenus
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Bertie Forbes
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
La Rochefoucauld
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson