Quotes
Quotes about Courage
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Don't vote--it only encourages them!
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
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.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.
The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As he was crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled and fell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groaned heavily. Some Frogs frequenting the pool heard his lamentation, and said, What would you do if you had to live here always as we do, when you make such a fuss about a mere fall into the water? Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
The Fawn and His Mother A young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.
