Courage Quotes

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

Courage - fear that has said its prayers.

(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow to move ahead.

Wealth lost-something lost Honor lost-much lost Courage lost-all lost.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

In politics guts is all.

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.

That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.

It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad.

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb.

Audacity augments courage hesitation fear.

Audacity has made kings.

Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.

Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.

Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly and [if] there is no situation to face it falls away of its own weight.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.

Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

The best way out of a problem is through it.

The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.

Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.

Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.

If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.

Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

Soldiers strike the foe in the face!

Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man.

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Courage is a quietness not martial music made Born of facing up to life even when afraid.

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.

No blame should attach to telling the truth.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.