Courage Quotes

Courage doesn't always roar.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.

Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness--- preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.

Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.

Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

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

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.

Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.

There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me.

It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

Audacity, audacity, always audacity.

Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Pause and remember - Change will happen the moment you have the courage to change.

A brave man is seldom unkind.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.