Courage Quotes

Courage Quotes

• Many people have died for what they believe… the real courage is living and suffering for what you believe. – Christopher Paolini

• I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. – Linda Ellerbee

• There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

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

• Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. – Louis D. Brandeis

• Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. – Martin Luther King Jr.

• Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist

• “Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” – Alexander Hamilton

• Courage is grace under pressure. – Ernest Hemingway

• Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate. – Linda R. Dominguez

• Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson

• Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. – Henry H. Tweedy

• It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – E. E. Cummings

• The first of all qualities of a general is courage. – David McCullough

• Courage is nothing less than the power To overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, While continuing to affirm inwardly That life with all its sorrows is good; That everything is meaningful even if in a sense Beyond our understanding; And there is always tomorrow. – Dorothy Thompson

• Success is that old ABC — ability, breaks, and courage. – Charles Luckman

• Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. – George S. Patton

• True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. – Alfred North Whitehead

• Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. – Terri Guillemets

• When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. – Mark Rutherford

• Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. – Michel de Montaigne

• Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist

• You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – Aristotle

• One man with courage makes a majority. – Andrew Jackson

• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. -C.S. Lewis

• Fear and courage are brothers.

• Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. – Thomas Fuller

• Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. – Lauren Raffo

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

• Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid. – Franklin P. Jones

• Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. – Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. – Mark Twain

• Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. – Mignon McLaughlin

• It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb. – Roman Proverb

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

• 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 Radmacher

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

• Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. – John F. Kennedy

• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

• It requires more courage to suffer than to die. – Napoleon Bonaparte

• Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. – Samuel Johnson

• Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury. – Muriel Strode

• You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. – Epicurus

• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. – Aristotle

• Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. – Baltasar Gracian

• He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. – Miguel de Cervantes

• Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. – Thomas Szasz

• We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. – Helen Keller

• Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

• The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. – R. G. Ingersoll

• Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. – Dale Carnegie

• Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin

• One man with courage makes a majority. – Andrew Jackson

• Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. – Samuel Johnson

• Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist

• True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. – Alfred North Whitehead

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