Quotes Index
Courage Quotes
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.—Thoreau
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. --A.A. Hodge
It is curious—curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.-- Mark Twain
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. —Susan B. Anthony
Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked.--Unknown
Silence is evil's closest ally. --Gary Amirault
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.—Mark Twain
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.—Gandhi
New paradigms put everyone practicing the old paradigm at risk. The higher one's position, the greater the risk. The better you are at your paradigm, the more you have invested in it, the more you have to lose by changing paradigms. --Joel Arthur Barker
True courage is not the absence of fear—but the willingness to proceed in spite of it.--Unknown
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. –William Shakespeare
A certain amount of opposition is great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. - John Neal
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.-- E. F. Schumacher
In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom. --Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name. --Robert Louis Stevenson
One man with courage makes a majority.-- Andrew Jackson
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes men poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers. --Elizabeth Rundle
Fear comes from the Adamic nature—faith comes from the Christ nature-- Jacquelyn K. Heasley
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.--Robert Frost
People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn’t seem to be leading anywhere.--Charles M. Mathias
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t go anywhere. --Unknown
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them,glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. --Thucydides
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is -try to please everybody.--Herbert Bayard Swope
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.--James Bryant Conant –
The greatest mistake is life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. –Elbert Hubbard
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.--Adlai E. Stevenson
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. --Edmund Burke
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. --Bob Dylan
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave. –Mark Twain
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -- Henry David Thoreau
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Martin Luther King Jr
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin