Courage Quotes - Page 16

• The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

  Horace

  Men, Citizens, Purpose

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 142-44, Carmina, III. 3. 1, 1922.

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• Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Yield, Temptation

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• When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.

  Spencer Johnson

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

  Bill Hybels

  Encouraging, Uplifting, Hard Times

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• Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

  Joseph Addison

  Bravery, Ifs

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• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Powerful, Adversity, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Army, Bravery, Be Brave

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Life, Motivational, Ladders

  "Clare Boothe Luce". Reader's Digest, May 1979.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Fear, Cancer, Recovery

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Meaningful, Men, Bravery

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.126

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• It is difficulties that show what men are.

  Epictetus

  Life, Men, Problem

  Epictetus (1967). “The Discourses as Reported by Arrian: The Manual, and Fragments”

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• Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Being Strong, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Wise, Wisdom, Truth

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• Courage is a kind of salvation.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Kind

  Plato (1883). “Plato's Best Thoughts”

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• True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Perseverance, Wind, Bravery

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• We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Encouragement, Fear, Patriotic

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

  Charlene Costanzo

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Men, Bravery

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.92

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• If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Change, Positive, Positivity

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• You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Positive, Happiness, Meaningful

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• Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope

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• I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

  Socrates

  Life, Men, Desire

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