Courage Quotations
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
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is asking for what you need.
Brene Brown
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live
taking the form of a readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk, especially in new undertakings.
Walt Disney
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, know no release
From little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.
Amelia Earhart
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster
Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage can only can support him in it.
Thomas Fuller
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. It is in the "dark shade of courage" alone that the spell can be broken.
Dag Hammarskjold
Courage is the ability to ignore your options.
Tom Heehler
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson
Everyone has a talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent
to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
In whatever arena of life one may meet the challenge of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience – the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men – each man must decide for himself the course he will follow.
John F. Kennedy
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. A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. Kennedy
In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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 see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee
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
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage, our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage, our fidelity becomes conformism.
Rollo May
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built. Rollo May
The testing ground for courage, as for love, is often crisis—those trying and troubled times which are precisely when artists must goto work and during which our true strength of character is revealed.
Maria Popova
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacker
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something
else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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
Courage is ubiquitous. It’s widely talked about and universally held in high regard.
Arthur Schwartz
Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example — for courage is as
contagious as fear.
Susan Sontag
Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.
Sabaa Tahir
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J.R.R.Tolkien
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Courage is what love looks like when tested by the simple everyday necessities of being alive.
David Whyte
Courage, dear heart.
C.S. Lewis
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future.
David Whyte
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives: the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation that must be made not once but many times by the power of the will.
Charles Wilson
You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.
Brene Brown
You can't test courage cautiously.
Annie Dillard
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees the others.
Aristotle
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
Brene Brown
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
Carrie Jones
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
George S. Patton, Jr.
It is in great danger that we see great courage.
Jean-François Regnard
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Margaret Mitchell
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Winston Churchill
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
Robert F. Kennedy
What would you do if you weren't afraid?
Sheryl Sandberg
Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William T. Sherman
Courage isn’t absence of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important.
Stephen R. Covey
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
Theodore Roosevelt
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
Václav Havel
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
Viktor Frankl
Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.
Timothy Snyder