Courage Quotes

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George bernard shaw - life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take...
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham
The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.
Steve Martini
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 no 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
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
Ren G. Torres
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Author Unknown
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. Somerset Maugham
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
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 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
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.
Hoshang N. Akhta
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith
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
Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble... for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.
Bible, Deuteronomy 31: 6 NAS
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Publilius Syrus
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Edison
Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage.
John Andrew Holmes
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
Sydney Smith
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....
Leo C. Rosten
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid
Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.
Unknown
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.
John Anthony Ciardi
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann von Goethe
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.
Alvaro de Solva