Famous Quotes on Courage

Over 15,000 quotations and famous quotes. quotes and quotations

QuoteWorld :: Virtue :: Courage Search in this category

Sponsored Links

<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next >>
Quote	Author	Rating	Rate
"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought."	Euripides
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten."	Euripides
"This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."	Euripides
"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."	Richard Louis Evans
"Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need."	François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."	Bertie Forbes
"I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave."	Edward Morgan Forster
"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
"Without justice courage is weak."	Benjamin Franklin
"Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you."	Paula Giddings
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."	André Gide
"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."	Newt Gingrich
"Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next >>

Browse Courage quotes by Author:

Adam L. Gordon	Aesop	Albert Camus
Albert Einstein	Alexander Michael	Alfred Adler
Alvaro de Solva	Ambrose Bierce	Amelia Earhart
Anatole France	Andrew Johnson	Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson
André Gide	Annie Besant	Aristotle
Athenæus	Author Unknown	Baltasar Gracian
Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bernard Edmonds
Bertie Forbes	Brendan Francis Behan	B. J. Gupta
Celeste Holm	Charles Hamilton Aide	Charles Luckman
Charles Mathias, Jr.	Confucius	Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Corra Harris	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	David Ben-Gurion
David L(yle) Boren	Dean Koontz	Doris Lessing
Doris Wild Helmering	Douglas MacArthur	Dwight David Eisenhower
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	D. A. Battista	Earl Nightingale
Edward Morgan Forster	Elizabeth Harrison	Elmer Holmes Davis
Erica Mann Jong	Erma Louise Bombeck	Ernest Miller Hemingway
Euripides	E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings	Franklin P. Adams
François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon	Gale Brook Burket	Geoffrey F. Abert
George Burton Adams	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Helen Adams Keller
Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Kaufman	Hoshang N. Akhtar
Hubert H. Humphrey	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Maritain
Jean Anouilh	Jerome Seymour Bruner	Jerry Coleman
Jim Davis	Joan Borysenko	Joan L. Curcio
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.	John Anthony Ciardi
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	John W(illiam) Gardner
Joseph Addison	Joseph Conrad	Joshua 1:9 Bible
Julian Weber Gordon	Julie Arabi	J. Lawton Collins
K. D. Lang	Lao-Tzu	Lewis Carroll
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lisa Alther	Lloyd Alexander
Lucille Ball	Mark Twain	Mark McGee
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Bertone	Mary Tyler Moore
Maxwell Maltz	Maya Angelou	Menander
Mignon McLaughlin	Miguel de Cervantes	Missy Good
Napolean Bonaparte	Napoleon I	Newt Gingrich
Noel Coward	Paula Giddings	Peter F(erdinand) Drucker
Phyllis McGinley	Psalm 27: 13-14 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Raymond Lindquist	Reinhold Niebuhr	Reinhold Neibuhr
Richard	Richard Louis Evans	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Albert Bloch	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll
Rodan of Alexandria	Ruth Gordon	Saint Francis of Assisi
Siddha Nagarjuna	Sidney Madwed	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Walter Besant	Sir William Arthur	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Sophia Loren	Stephen R. Covey	Susanna Moodie
Theodore Ledyard Cuyler	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Paine
Thomas Alva Edison	Van Wyck Brooks	Vicki Baum
Victor Hugo	Victoria Lincoln	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Walt(er) Elias Disney	Wanda Carter	Warren G. Bennis
William Blake	William Ellery Channing	William Franklin "Billy" Graham
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham	"Joe"	(John) Calvin Coolidge
(Makataimeshekiakiak) Black Hawk