Courage Quotes

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.

I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like

I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.

People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.

Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way. Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it.

The man with courage is a majority.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.