COURAGE QUOTES

• Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• It takes failure to rejuvinate courage but it takes the heart to walk through failure.
  ~ Perez Bulinda ~
• The failure to acknowledge your fears and weaknesses is nothing more than feigned courage.
  ~ Joseph Ogbonna ~
• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
  ~ Ovid ~
• 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 ~
• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• What a new face courage puts on everything.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.
  ~ P. G. Wodehouse ~
• 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 ~
• The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
  ~ William Blake ~
• The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
  ~ James Whitcomb Riley ~
• The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
  ~ D. H. Lawrence ~
• The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
  ~ Hermann Hesse ~
• That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
  ~ Carl Sandburg ~
• People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
  ~ Hermann Hesse ~
• Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
  ~ Delmore Schwartz ~
• It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
  ~ Erica Jong ~
• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
  ~ Erica Jong ~
• 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 ~
• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
  ~ Clive Staples Lewis ~
• 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 ~
• Courage conquers all things.
  ~ Ovid ~
• By courage I repel adversity. (Adversa Virtute Repello)
  ~ Anonymous ~
• By courage I repel adversity.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.
  ~ John Milton ~
• A map is useless without the courage to explore.
  ~ Aloo Denish Obiero ~
• leviathan in Norse mythology was to change movement of the sea and its attention on me. If ever I can be grimacing on moments of truth. Nor fear can stop me courage and destiny driven.
  ~ Magod Scroef ~
• TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
  ~ Sharon Stone ~
• TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
  ~ Sharon Stone ~
• TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
  ~ Sharon Stone ~
• TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
  ~ Sharon Stone ~
• A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
  ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~
• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
  ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~
• A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
  ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~
• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
  ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~
• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
  ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~
• A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
  ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~
• Every man of courage is a man of his word.
  ~ Pierre Corneille ~
• Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
  ~ Wendell Phillips ~
• I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
  ~ Dick Cheney ~
• It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
  ~ Dick Cheney ~
• It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
  ~ Dick Cheney ~
• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
  ~ Christian Nestell Bovee ~
• Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
  ~ Thornton Wilder ~
• Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
  ~ Thornton Wilder ~
• Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
  ~ Thomas Szasz ~
• Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
  ~ Thomas Szasz ~
• Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
  ~ Helen Hayes ~
• Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
  ~ Andrew Shue ~
• Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
  ~ Andrew Shue ~
• Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
  ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
• Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
  ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
• Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
  ~ Umberto Eco ~
• Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
  ~ Umberto Eco ~
• Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
  ~ Christy Turlington ~
• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
  ~ Dan Rather ~
• The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
  ~ Gerry Adams ~
• Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
  ~ Gerry Adams ~
• Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
  ~ Gerry Adams ~
• Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
  ~ Gerry Adams ~
• It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.
  ~ Ray Comfort ~
• It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.
  ~ Ray Comfort ~
• Following ones mind is very efficent, do not ever be discourage by what people say.
  ~ Comfort Boluwatife Opakunbi ~
• Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society.
  ~ James Hillman ~
• The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.
  ~ James Hillman ~
• Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
  ~ Peter Ustinov ~
• Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
  ~ Dean Koontz ~
• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
  ~ Benito Mussolini ~
• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
  ~ Benito Mussolini ~
• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
  ~ Benito Mussolini ~
• 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. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
  ~ William Arthur Ward ~
• It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
  ~ Les Brown ~
• It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
  ~ Les Brown ~
• A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
  ~ Les Brown ~
• It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
  ~ Les Brown ~
• A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
  ~ Les Brown ~
• I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
  ~ Loretta Young ~
• I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
  ~ Loretta Young ~
• Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
  ~ Loretta Young ~
• I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
  ~ Loretta Young ~
• You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
  ~ Kenny Loggins ~
• You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
  ~ Kenny Loggins ~
• Courage is always rewarded.
  ~ Kenny Loggins ~
• It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
  ~ Zoe Saldana ~