Courage Quotes

The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.

Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?

It is brave to be involved.

When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Nothing ventured nothing gained.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer to venture down new paths of endeavor.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try and perhaps failing.

What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

When you're my size in the pros fear is a sign that you're not stupid.

Courage leads starward fear toward death.

Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear.

Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage is the right disposition toward fear.

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world afraid to face himself.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

Men perish by the sword cowards by disease.

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.

Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

The coward despairs.

The only cowards are sinners fighting the fight is all.

All men would be cowards if they durst.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.

To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.

Many become brave when brought to bag.

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.

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

We would be cowards if we had courage enough.

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope in the one case we have nothing to lose in the other everything to gain.

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

It takes courage to live-courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.