Courage Quotes

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change

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

The strongest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what he would be capable of with the world looking on.

He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Fortune helps the brave.

Fortune favors the brave.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is the most beautiful kind of madness.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It�s the age-old struggle�the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

My idea of courage is the guy who has $500,000 tied up in the stock market and turns to the box scores first!

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Duty, honour, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

For there is one thing we must never forget...the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

Life is to entered upon with courage.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.