Courage Quotes

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'

Integrity is the core of our character.

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

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

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

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.

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!

It is brave to be involved

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

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

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

Courage is the goal of cowards.

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

The greatest need in the world today is faith in God and courage to do His will.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

To ignite your confidence and reclaim your courage, you must step into the highest vision of who you are. The only way to do this is to make the journey back into the arms of the Divine.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.

Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.

My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.