Courage Quotes

The courage to receive time's mightiest dream.

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.

Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny.

That is the nature of hope. We do all we can, and then the Lord stretches forth his hand and touches our lives with light and courage and, most of all, hope.

So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.

The best leaders blend courage with compassion.

People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

We need a president that shows the courage that Egypt's President al-Sisi, a Muslim, when he called out the radical Islamic terrorists who are threatening the world.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh

It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.

I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

Listen to your inner voice. Trust your intuition. It's important to have the courage to trust yourself.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.

We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

Don't accept the post or stay unless you have an understanding with the President that you're free to tell him what you think "with the bark off" and you have the courage to do it.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence. Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

The courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine Destiny.

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination.

It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage to move ahead in spite of these doubts.