Courage Quotes

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

Erica Jong

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

Alexander Michael

Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.

Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickove

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Eric Hoffe

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

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

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

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

D. H. Lawrence

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Thornton Wilde

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Euripides

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

Steve Martini

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert G. Ingersoll

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

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

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardne

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

W. Somerset Maugham

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

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

John Lancaster Spalding

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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

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

William Franklin Billy Graham

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

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day