Courage Quotes

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I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.
George Joachim

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel Boorstin

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.
Don Quixote

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
Bernard Baruch

Virtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Nagarjuna

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George Patton

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison

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

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

The boats are streamlined, advertisement splattered, potential coffins, and are controlled on a knife-edge balance of courage and sense.
Simon Barnes

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
Charles Lamb

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 Gardner

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here
Alan Pardew

Sometimes you have something that is so good, you never want to let go - it encourages you to get greedy!
Derek Jeter

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Stephen Baker

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard

The coward and the courageous alike must die
Lucanus

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.
Helmut Kohl

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Rollo May

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical
Boris Yeltsin

The world has lost a religious leader who was revered across people of all faiths and none. He was an inspiration, a man of extraordinary faith, dignity and courage.

Throughout a hard and often difficult life, he stood for social justice and on the side of the oppressed, whether as a young man facing the Nazi occupation in Poland or later in challenging the Communist regime.

He never wavered, never flinched, in the struggle for what he thought was good and right.
[on Pope John Paul II]
Tony Blair

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F Drucker

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Life is mainly froth and bubble
Two things stand like stone -
Kindness in another's trouble.
Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon

This act is a rallying call to people of all faiths and none, to encourage them to feel that there is something that can be done [on camping in York Minster]
John Sentamu

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel De Cervantes

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

It takes courage to push things forward.
Mo Mowlam

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
Timothy Dalton

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
D H Lawrence

Courage is adversity's lamp.
Luc De Vauvanargues

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree
Logan Pearsall Smith

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Robert G Ingersoll

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee

Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
Edward Albert

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
Jim Courier

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.
Tony Randall

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart



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