Courage Quotes - page 4

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. (Anatole France)
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. View quote
Robert Crumb
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult. View quote
Julia Cameron
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
The best protection any woman can have... is courage. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. View quote
Rahul Dravid
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? View quote
Marie Antoinette
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. (Stephen Leacock)
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. View quote
Victor Hugo
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. View quote
Erich Fromm
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. View quote
Jim Hightower
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
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. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. View quote
Joseph Conrad
If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. View quote
James Callaghan
Optimism is the foundation of courage. (Nicholas Murray Butler)
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. View quote
Andre Norton
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. View quote
Ralph W. Sockman
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. View quote
Billy Graham