Courage Quotes
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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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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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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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The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
Herbert Spencer
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
Stephen Covey
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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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There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve
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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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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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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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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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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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... 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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Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.
Walter Brueggemann
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Optimism is the true moral courage.
Ernest Shackleton
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Courage comes in different forms. There's strength-that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.
Nora Roberts
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
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It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.
Neil Marcus
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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 the only Magic worth having.
Erica Jong
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My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.
Mother Teresa
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You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.
Estelle
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True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.
Simon Sinek