courage
Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
6 quotes from Rollo May
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
11 wisdom & wit from Charlie Chaplin
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
4 quotes from Giacomo Casanova
One man with courage is a majority.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
4 wisdom & wit from James Freeman Clarke
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
6 other sayings from Leo Rosten
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
8 wisdom & wit from Hosea Ballou
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
27 more quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Necessity does the work of courage.
4 quotes from Nicholas M. Butler
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
4 more quotes from Nicholas M. Butler
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
4 more sayings from Nicholas M. Butler
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
14 more quotes from Edward Gibbon
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
3 sayings from Carl Friedrich Gauss
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
6 other thoughts from Rollo May
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
26 quotes from Harry S. Truman
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
4 other quotes from John Wayne
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
46 other sayings from John F. Kennedy
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.
6 quotes from Catherine the Great
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
2 quotes from David Viscott
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
15 more quotes from Christopher Morley
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
52 other sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
21 other quotes from Mignon McLaughlin
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
4 views from Kenneth L. Pike
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
2 thoughts from Anna Akhmatova
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
15 other quotes from Pierre Corneille
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
7 wisdom & wit from Sydney Smith
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
53 thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
15 sayings from Reinhold Niebuhr
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
14 more quotes from Jean Anouilh
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
14 quotes from Jean Anouilh
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
14 more quotes from Thomas Hardy
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
21 wisdom & wit from Mignon McLaughlin
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
14 quotes from Jean Anouilh
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
8 more thoughts from Stokely Carmichael
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
28 thoughts from William Butler Yeats
Courage is grace under pressure.
35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
10 more quotes from Hermann Hesse
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
115 other views from George Bernard Shaw
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
7 more quotes from John Quincy Adams
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
115 more thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
19 other quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
50 more wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
11 more quotes from Paul Tillich
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
16 quotes from Coco Chanel
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
11 other views from Paul Tillich
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
11 wisdom & wit from Paul Tillich
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
4 more views from Arthur Koestler
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
63 more quotes from Samuel Johnson
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
21 other wisdom & wit from Miguel de Cervantes
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
5 more quotes from James Thomson
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
90 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
24 more quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
4 quotes from Jeremy Collier
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
13 more quotes from e. e. cummings
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
30 sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
8 sayings from Lewis Mumford
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.
2 quotes from David Ben-Gurion
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
2 more quotes from David Ben-Gurion
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
36 more thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
4 more wisdom & wit from Jonas Salk
I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living.
6 quotes from Georg Buchner
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
36 more wisdom & wit from Theodore Roosevelt
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
4 quotes from Jonas Salk
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
4 sayings from William Samuel Johnson
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
20 wisdom & wit from George S. Patton
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
25 thoughts from C. S. Lewis
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
98 sayings from Mark Twain
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
74 thoughts from Winston Churchill
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
22 other thoughts from Andre Gide
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
11 more quotes from Bruce Lee
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
9 more quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
4 quotes from Jacques Maritain
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
2 more quotes from Erwin Rommel
Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
2 sayings from Marie Antoinette
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
11 other views from Henry Van Dyke
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
39 more views from Robert Louis Stevenson
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
21 thoughts from Dale Carnegie
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
2 sayings from John Bunyan
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
14 more sayings from Wendell Phillips
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
3 other quotes from Benjamin Banneker
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
52 sayings from Albert Camus
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
3 other quotes from George A. Sheehan
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
32 quotes from William Blake
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
20 thoughts from George S. Patton
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
12 quotes from James Allen
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
12 other quotes from James Allen
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
4 sayings from Margaret Mitchell
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
23 thoughts from Walt Disney
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
10 other wisdom & wit from Marlene Dietrich
Creativity takes courage.
7 other views from Henri Matisse
Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.
2 wisdom & wit from Andrew Johnson
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
11 other views from Joseph Stalin
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
2 more quotes from Delmore Schwartz
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
46 more thoughts from George Santayana
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
14 wisdom & wit from Joseph Conrad
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is found in unlikely places.
5 quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
14 views from Loretta Young
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
41 views from Martin Luther King, Jr.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
75 quotes from Aristotle
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
17 wisdom & wit from Plutarch
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
75 quotes from Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
75 sayings from Aristotle
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
2 more quotes from H. G. Bohn
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
17 other thoughts from Plutarch
Despair gives courage to a coward.
45 more sayings from Thomas Fuller
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
26 more quotes from E. M. Forster
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
14 views from Loretta Young
Freedom is a system based on courage.
4 quotes from Charles Peguy
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
3 quotes from August Strindberg
I would kiss you, had I the courage.
3 other quotes from Edouard Manet
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
12 other thoughts from Thomas Merton
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
3 thoughts from Vittorio Alfieri
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
3 sayings from Vittorio Alfieri
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
12 views from Zora Neale Hurston
The more wit the less courage.
45 more sayings from Thomas Fuller
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
20 more thoughts from Thomas Aquinas
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
15 more views from Moliere
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
25 other thoughts from Orison Swett Marden
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
10 other sayings from William Congreve
Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
12 other views from Thomas a Kempis
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
4 other views from William J. H. Boetcker
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
20 wisdom & wit from William Tecumseh Sherman
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
21 more thoughts from Anais Nin
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
Being gifted needs courage.
3 sayings from Georg Brandes
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
6 other quotes from Charles Lindbergh
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
33 more quotes from Erma Bombeck
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
4 other sayings from James A. Michener
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
6 sayings from Sinclair Lewis
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
2 quotes from Van Wyck Brooks
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
19 more sayings from Alfred North Whitehead
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
9 quotes from John Steinbeck
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
32 more quotes from Michel de Montaigne
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
16 other wisdom & wit from Erich Fromm
One man with courage makes a majority.
9 views from Andrew Jackson
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
23 thoughts from Vincent Van Gogh
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
6 quotes from Earl Nightingale
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
18 quotes from Jean Paul
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
11 other thoughts from Clare Boothe Luce
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
3 other quotes from Herbert Kaufman
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
4 quotes from Torquato Tasso
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
3 other thoughts from Richard L. Evans
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
4 quotes from Channing Pollock