Courage Quotes

Choosing wealth as a goal requires facing everything about your money bravely, honestly, with courage -- which is a very, very hard thing for most of us to do.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.

I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Courage is exhilarating.

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

Hard work, courage and commitment - these are the key elements for success.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

There's courage involved if you want to become Truth.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Courage encourages courage.

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

For some people it may be kind of off-putting. But the idea that fear accompanies us at every step: the point is that our courage has to be bigger than our fear.

Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Courage starts when the fun stops

It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it.

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.