Courage Quotes

Confucius - to see what is right, and not to do it, is want...
Euripides - courage may be taught as a child is taught to...
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
La Rochefoucauld
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Seneca
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Booth Luce
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - And friendless.
Author Unknown
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
Hermann Hesse
The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.
D. A. Battista
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Titus Plautus
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.
David L Boren
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
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
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible
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 have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Leon Blum
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. e. cummings
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
Thomas Troward
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
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Publilius Syrus
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
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmache
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann von Goethe
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James F. Clarke
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Whitheead
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra Harris
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
Ren G. Torres
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
Eric Sevareid