Quotes About Courage
1. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. – Steve Jobs
2. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt
3. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. – Nelson Mandela
4. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill
5. There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. – Ronald Reagan
6. Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. – Maya Angelou
7. Courage is grace under pressure. – Ernest Hemingway
8. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
9. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain
10. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali
11. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. – C. S. Lewis
12. Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway. – John Wayne
13. Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. – Miguel Angel Ruiz
14. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – Aristotle
15. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. – John F. Kennedy
16. One man with courage is a majority. – Thomas Jefferson
17. Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. – W. Clement Stone
18. Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. – Confucius
19. How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. – Benjamin Franklin
20. Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? – William Shakespeare
21. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie
22. It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. – Alan Cohen
23. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. – Victor Hugo
25. He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. – Socrates
26. From caring comes courage. – Lao Tzu
27. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin
28. The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
29. Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. – Charlie Chaplin
30. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. – Harry S. Truman
31. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel
32. Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. – Albert Camus
33. Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts. – John Wooden
34. Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. – Billy Graham
35. Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! – Thomas A. Edison
36. Courage is a kind of salvation. – Plato
37. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. – George S. Patton
38. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
39. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. – Erich Fromm
40. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? – Vincent Van Gogh
41. God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. – Reinhold Niebuhr
42. Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. – Benjamin Disraeli
43. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. – Harry S. Truman
44. It requires more courage to suffer than to die. – Napoleon Bonaparte
45. Courage is found in unlikely places. – J. R. R. Tolkien
46. Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. – Samuel Johnson
47. To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that. – Saint Teresa of Avila
48. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – E. F. Schumacher
49. The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. – Jim Hightower
50. One man with courage makes a majority. – Andrew Jackson
51. Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. – Harper Lee
52. I’m grateful to God for His bountiful gifts… He gave me courage and faith in myself. – Loretta Young
53. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith
54. The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. – Thucydides
55. A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. – Les Brown
56. We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. – Maxwell Maltz
57. The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. – Paul Tillich
58. Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. – Joseph Smith, Jr.
59. It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. – Giacomo Casanova
60. We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. – Mary McLeod Bethune
61. Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. – William Tecumseh Sherman
62. If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. – John Irving
63. Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. – Rollo May
64. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. – Dan Rather
65. Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. – Thomas Szasz
66. People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. – Hermann Hesse
67. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. – Saint Francis de Sales
68. The best protection any woman can have… is courage. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
69. The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. – Carl Lewis
70. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
71. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
72. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. – Eleanor Roosevelt
73. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
74. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr
75. Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. – Bruce Lee
76. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. – Maya Angelou
77. I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anais Nin
78. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt
79. Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. – Denis Waitley
80. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou
81. One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. – Maya Angelou
82. You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. – Epicurus
83. Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have. – Ronald Reagan
84. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. – Mark Twain
85. Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. – Confucius
86. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others. – Winston Churchill
87. A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten. – John F. Kennedy
88. A man of courage is also full of faith. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
89. Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. – Orison Swett Marden
90. Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. – Oscar Wilde
91. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – e. e. cummings
92. The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. – John F. Kennedy
93. He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. – B. C. Forbes
94. Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. – Aristotle
95. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. – Robert Green Ingersoll
96. Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
97. You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. – Michelle Obama
98. The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. – Thomas S. Monson
99. Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. – Aristotle
100. Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
101. Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength. – Lao Tzu
102. I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. – Marilyn Monroe
103. My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. – Abdul Kalam
104. A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. – George Bernard Shaw
105. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. – Theodore Roosevelt
106. I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. – George Bernard Shaw
107. True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is. – Norman Schwarzkopf
108. Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. – Theodore Roosevelt
109. He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. – George Bernard Shaw
110. Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. – Napoleon Bonaparte
111. Courage is knowing what not to fear. – Plato
112. Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. – Albert Camus
113. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. – Erma Bombeck
114. My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
115. Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. – Billy Graham
116. God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. – Chester W. Nimitz
117. All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. – Erma Bombeck
118. Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are. – Bryant H. McGill
119. Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. – Jacqueline Bisset
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