Courage Quotes
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Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.
Blaine Hogan
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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
Paul Newman
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Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
Jeff Goodell
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It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.
Ellis Paul Torrance
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Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.
Paul Dirac
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
Ernest Shackleton
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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Stephen Spender
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Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.
Beverly Jenkins
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
William Hazlitt
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What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
George Eliot
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A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.
Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
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The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.
Wallace Nesbitt
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
Charles Eliot Norton
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It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.
Edward Hallowell
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Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.
Niketas Stethatos
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If we could be heroes, if just for one day.
David Bowie
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
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I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.
Dennis Wholey
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Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore.
Bob Goff
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There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
Erica Jong