Courage Quotes

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius.

Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway.

Forget yourself! Think courage.

We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

Art is a personal act of courage.

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.

It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Courage means going forward without doubt. If you believe you have courage, you have courage.

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

You have to be tough.

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.

Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.

If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire