Quotes on Courage.

Collection of famous quotes on courage.

Every act of courage is a manifestation of the ground of being, however questionable the content of the act may be. - Paul Tillich

Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility. - Rollo May

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

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - David Lloyd George

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

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin

All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

Courage means to keep working on a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. - Denis Waitley

Two thirds of help is to give courage. - Irish Proverb

It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know is true. - Sara E Anderson

The first of all qualities is courage. Without this the others are of little value, since they cannot be used. The second is intelligence, which must be strong and fertile in expedients. The third is health. - Marshal Comte de Maurice Saxe

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent Van Gogh

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior. - D.A. Battista

Courage is endurance of the soul. - Socrates

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead. - Rollo May

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

The strongest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Courage, that is the temporary domination of will over instinct, brings about victory. - Ardant du Picq

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

Courage is not merely one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. - C. S. Lewis

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all. - Miguel de Cervantes

Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger but in seeing and conquering it. - Richter.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp, the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man both are necessary. - Colton

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

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. - Keshavan Nair

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. - Tori Amos

Courage, however, is that firmness of spirit, that moral backbone, which, fully appreciating the danger involved, nevertheless goes on with the undertaking. Bravery is physical; courage is mental and moral. You can be cold all over; your hands may tremble; your legs may quake; your knees be ready to give way-that is fear. If, nevertheless, you go forward; if in spite of this physical defection you continue to lead your men against the enemy, you have the courage. The physical manifestation of fear will pass away. You may experience them but once. - Major C. A. Bach

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. - Dorothy Bernard

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. - Mary Tyler Moore

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. - Maxwell Maltz

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. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice. - Soren Kierkegaard

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. - Diane De Poitiers

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. - David Viscott

Courage is grace under pressure. - Sir Winston Churchill

To see what is right and not do it is want of courage. - Confucius

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Identifying your enthusiasms requires courage and heroic creative vision. You have to believe that what you want is possible for you. - Marsha Sinetar

Courage is sustained...by calling up anew the vision of the goal. - A. G. Sertillanges

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. - Ralph W. Sockman

To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage. - Stephen R. Covey

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