Quotes
Quotes about Courage
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
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 no to be feared.
But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ Chronicles 15:7].
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him. [Lat., Virtutis expers verbis jactans gloriam Ignotos fallit, notis est derisui.]
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexibleâhe is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage . . . to listen to his own goodness.
Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.
Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Discouragement is the opposite of courage.
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.
