Courage Quotes - page 2

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
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. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? View quote
Vincent van Gogh
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. View quote
Paul Tillich
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. View quote
Mark Twain
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. View quote
Barack Obama
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. (E. F. Schumacher)
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. View quote
Winston Churchill
It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. View quote
Pericles
Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." View quote
Christopher Columbus
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. View quote
Ruth Gordon
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. View quote
Mickey Mantle
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity. View quote
Ruby Dee
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. View quote
William Hazlitt
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. (Erwin Rommel)
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. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living. View quote
Georg Büchner
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick