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.