Courage Quotes

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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.

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.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

One man with courage is a majority.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

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

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

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

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

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.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

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

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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

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.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

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!

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

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.

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

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.

In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.

Physical courage is a great test.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.