Courage Quotes - Page 27

• We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Writing, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.95, Library of Alexandria

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• Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Culture, Youth, Modern

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• Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

  Horace

  Adversity, Heart, Men

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• Where I could not be honest,
  I never yet was valiant.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Being Honest, Valiant

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.262

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• If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

  Douglas Coupland

  Halloween, Years, Costumes

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Grief, Recovery, Self

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• Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

  George Herbert

  Danger

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• The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

  Bernard Baruch

  Encouraging, Meaningful, Art

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• Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.292, University of Georgia Press

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• You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Spiritual, Encouragement

  "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.

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• It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

  Matthew Fox

  Inspirational, Despair, Renaissance

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• Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

  Robert Blair

  Bears, Whistling

  Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, Beilby Porteus (1818). “The grave,: a poem,”, p.13

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• And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

  Epictetus

  Greatness, Endurance, Bears

  Epictetus (2012). “Discourses (Books 1 and 2)”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Bravery, Fearless

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

  John W. Gardner

  Powerful, Fear, Failure

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• If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Lions, Safe

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• What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Motivation, Failure

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2014

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• It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Ucla

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Bravery, Essentials

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• All happiness depends on courage and work.

  Honore de Balzac

  Life, Happiness, Depends

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• We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Trust, Real

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• But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Grief, Men, Suffering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.64, Beacon Press

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• A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

  Bertrand Russell

  Motivational, Atheist, Kindness

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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