Courage Quotes

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back. 

Abraham Lincoln

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

 P. J. Bailey

There is no victory at bargain basement prices. 

Dwight David Eisenhower

To become a champion, fight one more round. 

James Corbett

It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. John Wooden

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. 

Babe Ruth

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. Susan Longacre

When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” 

Author Unknown

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

 John N. Mitchell

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged. 

Thomas Alva Edison(The scientist who founded GE)

Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.

 John Wooden was the first person ever enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player (1961) and as a coach (1973).

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. 

Eleanor Roosevelt

The best way out is always through. 

Robert Frost is a famous American poet whose impressive career included 4 Pulitzer Prizes despite life plagued with grief and loss. His father died of tuberculosis when Frost was 11, leaving the family with just $8. His mother died of cancer 5 years later. As for his own children, 3 died young due to cholera and fever.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. 

David Brinkley

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

 Helen Keller.

Many say I am just one to try. I say I am one less to quit. Diego Marchi (thanks Claudia!)

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn so that we see ourselves as we really are. 

Arthur Golden

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better..more

The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.

 Elmer Davis

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer, 

General S. Patton

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

 Walt Disney

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. 

William Ellery Channing

God, grant me the serenity to accept things that I cannot change; The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. 

Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice. 

James Callaghan