 He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. Author: Albert Camus |
| Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. Author: Delmore Schwartz |
| Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. Author: Ruth Gordon |
| Part of courage is simple consistency. Author: Peggy Noonan |
| Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. Author: Frances Rodman |
| It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead. Author: Bill Hybels |
| Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Author: Winston Churchill |
| We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Courage easily finds its own eloquence. Author: Titus Maccius Plautus |
| As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. Author: Andre Norton |
| Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared. Author: David Ben-Gurion |
| Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. Author: Rollo May |
| It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. Author: Billy Graham |
| How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. Author: Benjamin Franklin |
| Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. Author: Leon Blum |
| Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. Author: George S. Patton |
| The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. Author: Van Wyck Brooks |
| Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. Author: Leo Rosten |
