Courage Quotes

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

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

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

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

Brendan Francis Behan

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost - Benefit calculations.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Alfred Adle

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Marilyn Monroe

Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

God, 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.

Reinhold Niebuh

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

Euripides

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Titus Plautus

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

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

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

Jacques Maritain

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Confucius

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben - Gurion

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Erica Jong

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossne

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Ruth Gordon

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

Clive Staples Lewis

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

Jan Smuts

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Robert Albert Bloch

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

C. C. Colton